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Best new books out in May from Elizabeth Strout, Francesca Albanese and more

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By Kate Evans Verified, Nicola Heath Verified, Declan Fry
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
Acclaimed American writer Elizabeth Strout's characters Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton are among the most loved in contemporary literature. In her latest novel, Strout introduces a new cast of characters led by Artie Dam, a genial history teacher with a melancholy streak.
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Colm Tóibín The News From Dublin

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By Declan Fry
| The Saturday Paper Verified
The title of Colm Tóibín’s third short-story collection is telling. When it comes to news from elsewhere, you can speculate and hypothesise all you like. What Tóibín’s characters will tell you is that the realisation of any news is subject to other forces – to letters and telegrams, text messages and therapy sessions. For the divorced father banking on a day out with his daughter in “Five Bridges”, life is managed via the vulnerable soul’s favourite torture device: text message.
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Ellena Savage The Ruiners

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By Declan Fry
| The Saturday Paper Verified
Waitressing part-time at a “barbaric” lobster shack, Pip longs for escape. Her consumer debt is “the embarrassing kind”, accrued buying designer clothes so vintage they “were in fact rags”. Fearing promotion, she quarantines her official job title in scare quotes and considers her chances of becoming Susan Sontag. Pip knows her life is a farce. She also knows it’s better than the gaucher alternative: “striving”.
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