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Some kind of kismet continues to link Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke. The authors belong to different generations, write in different languages and generate considerably different levels of controversy. But events unrelated to them conspired such that they learned of their Nobel Prize wins (Tokarczuk: 2018; Handke: 2019) on the same day and received those prizes at the same ceremony two months later. Now here they are, unaccountably together again.
A ghost attempts to guide an unrepentant oil executive toward redemption and the afterlife in the staggering latest from Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo). The story takes place over the course of one night, when the spirit of Jill Blaine descends to Earth and takes on human form at the home of K.J. Boone, her latest “charge.” As opposed to the hundreds of others Jill has visited at the end of their days, the terminally ill Boone is uninterested in finding peace or reckoning with his misdeeds.
Parkman debuts with a thrilling mystery that offers an immersive view into the lives of NFL cheerleaders. Ginny Barton is a Jill, as the Buffalo Bills’ cheerleaders are called. One Sunday, her best friend and fellow squad member Jeanine Chanowitz fails to show up for a game. As the days pass and Jeanine remains a no-show, alarm bells go off in Ginny’s head and she begins to investigate on her own, frustrated by the cops’ lackadaisical response.
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