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Abby Geni on Mental Hit Lists, Viking Culture, and the Complexity of Empathy
Most of us have a mental hit list. These are the people we would kill if we could get away with it. Maybe you daydream about murdering an ex, or a childhood bully, or that one coworker who still has not figured out the mute button on Zoom. Article continues after advertisement My own hit list consists entirely of mortal enemies. It doesn’t matter how long ago they wronged me, or whether the enemy in question is even aware that they are, in fact, my enemy.
20 Books To Keep You Up All Night
Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.
Children of the Wolf
I am descended from Vikings. My paternal lineage runs all the way back to Erik the Red, the first European to stumble upon the shores of North America. Even for a Viking, he was brutal and hotheaded. His clan exiled him from Norwegian soil for murdering too many of his kinsmen, so he gathered up a raiding party, sailed across the Atlantic, landed in a frozen wasteland, named it Greenland for some reason, and made war on the people he found there.
Review: Digging into the stories in Abby Geni’s ‘The Body Farm’
Some may remember the Body Worlds traveling exhibition that controversially showed chemically-preserved dissected bodies. Viewers were able to have a rare look at the human body that not only demonstrated the fragile reality of our physical existence, but also invited discussions regarding aesthetics and metaphor. Abby Geni’s new short story collection, “The Body Farm,” dissects physical abuse, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, illness and murder — and holds the same dualistic fascination.
20 new books coming this spring you won’t want to miss
It’s finally spring, which comes as a relief to those who have been looking forward to stowing away their sweaters and gloves — and to book lovers as well, who know that publishers unleash a flood of new titles this time of year. Here are 20 books coming out now and in the following months that are perfect for reading on your porch, at the ballpark during the seventh-inning stretch, or wherever else you choose to welcome the sun back into your life.
20 new books coming this spring you won’t want to miss
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20 new books coming this spring you won’t want to miss
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It’s finally spring, which comes as a relief to those who have been looking forward to stowing away their sweaters and gloves — and to book lovers as well, who know that publishers unleash a flood of new titles this time of year. Here are 20 books coming out now and in the following months that are perfect for reading on your porch, at the ballpark during the seventh-inning stretch, or wherever else you choose to welcome the sun back into your life.
THE BODY FARM | Kirkus Reviews
An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. It’s not necessary to have read Dickens’ famous novel to appreciate Kingsolver’s absorbing tale, but those who have will savor the tough-minded changes she rings on his Victorian sentimentality while affirming his stinging critique of a heartless society.
Best Short Fiction of 2024
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Selkie | JOYLAND
My sister was found as a newborn at the edge of the ocean, washed up on the beach by the tide. She lay on her back with her sea-colored eyes open. She did not cry as the waves surged around her, carrying her little body further up the sand with each foamy swell. Strands of seaweed coiled around her plump belly. In lieu of a parent’s finger, she clutched a shell in her fist—a coiled mollusk spiral, thumb-sized and tapered, as brown as flesh, plucked from the bottom of the ocean.
The Body Farm
Hardcover Ebook On Sale: | $27 9781640096264 | Hardcover 6 x 9 | 304 pages On Sale: | $14.99 9781640096271 | Ebook | 304 pages The long-awaited new book from the critically acclaimed author of The Lightkeepers and The Wildlands: an intense and insightful collection that celebrates the horrors and joys of inhabiting our bodies The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our feelings and experiences.
Strażnicy światła
KSIĄŻKA ROKU 2016 WEDŁUG BARNES & NOBLE! SZALENIE WCIĄGAJĄCA OPOWIEŚĆ, W KTÓREJ NIEPOKÓJ STALE WISI W EGZOTYCZNYM POWIETRZU WYSP WYBRZEŻA KALIFORNII Siedmioro ludzi. Jedna mała wyspa. Wyizolowane środowisko, ograniczona grupa, problemy z zaufaniem oraz bezwzględna, tylko pozornie losowa śmierć raptownie zbierająca żniwo… Strażnicy światła to thriller, który przedstawia świat dzikiej natury i spektakl grozy. Miranda jest fotografką natury, która została wysłana na zawodową misję.
An Earth Day Reading List for Grown-Ups
As the resident Plant Lady™ among my family and friends, the fact that I’m usually reading about nature and the environment is no big surprise. But, during the spring when it finally stops (mostly) snowing in Chicago, I get extra excited to read about the world around me. But on Earth Day, everything I usually find is for kids! Which is great—we should absolutely be educating the next generation on how to take better care of the world.
An Earth Day Reading List for Grown-Ups
As the resident Plant Lady™ among my family and friends, the fact that I’m usually reading about nature and the environment is no big surprise. But, during the spring when it finally stops (mostly) snowing in Chicago, I get extra excited to read about the world around me. But on Earth Day, everything I usually find is for kids! Which is great—we should absolutely be educating the next generation on how to take better care of the world.
Books from Sally Field, Bob Woodward, and more to read in September
Gary Shteyngart’s first novel in seven years is based on his own Greyhound bus trip across the country. In the book’s case, the journey is embarked on by Barry Cohen, a wealthy hedge-fund manager abandoning his family and job. Why? The author finds answers in a family portrait that doubles as a direct commentary on the Trump era. Call this Shteyngart’s stab at the Great American Novel. (Sept. 4)
The Sin Eater: Alice Thomas Ellis and the Gothic Tradition
AT FIRST GLANCE, Alice Thomas Ellis might not seem an exemplar of Gothic writing. Her work is witty, scintillating, at times even comic. Her dialogue fairly glitters. She has been compared to Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, and Muriel Spark. As a rule, her writing defies easy categorization. Her work is an alchemical blend of disparate elements — humor and darkness, exquisite prose and empty banter, the spiritual and the commonplace.
The Wildlands
Cora becomes her brother’s unwitting accomplice, taking on a new identity while engaging in acts of escalating violence. Darlene works with Mercy police to find her siblings, leading to an unexpected showdown at a zoo in Southern California. The Wildlands is another remarkable literary thriller from critically acclaimed writer Abby Geni, one that examines what happens when one family becomes trapped in the tenuous space between the human and animal worlds.
2016 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award Finalists, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, Books
This indelible novel follows two branches of a family—one in America and the other in Africa--over 300 years, and the writing is so assured that it’s hard to believe this is a debut. This heartbreaking, beautiful book reminded us of Toni Morrison’s exquisite novels and an earlier Discover pick, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis.
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