Christmas Is Coming by Anne Bowen

Valmiki's Daughter

In Valmiki’s Daughter, seriously acclaimed and best-selling novelist Shani Mootoo returns to the fashion — and a few of the topics — she first explored in her breakout booklet, Cereus Blooms at evening.

Mootoo introduces readers to the Krishnus, a well-to-do Trinidadian family members firmly ensconced within the strict social hierarchy of the island. during this tale of kinfolk secrets and techniques, patriarch Valmiki conceals a painful truth approximately his sexual identification whereas his youngest, the energetic and clever Viveka, struggles to come back to phrases with a painful mystery hooked up to her sexual identification.

As Valmiki’s and Viveka’s secrets and techniques threaten to shake the principles of the relatives, this superbly written and hypnotically paced novel explores the advanced interplay of race, gender, type, and sexuality in a closed society.

The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo

In this charming novel, Darrin Doyle paints an enthralling portrait of the all-American family—if the all-American family’s youngest baby ate a complete urban in Michigan with a grin, that is.  Doyle has a flare for writing approximately relations disorder with a twist. With a different combination of realism and delusion, the lady Who Ate Kalamazoo is the relocating tale of the hauntingly attractive Audrey Mapes, who begun her illustrious “career” through downing crayons by means of the carton merely to graduate to consuming a whole urban one chunk at a time.

Sometimes a Great Notion

The extraordinary moment novel from the mythical writer of 1 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Following the staggering good fortune of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few crucial books written via an American within the final part century. " This wild-spirited story tells of a sour strike that rages via a small lumber city alongside the Oregon coast.

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