{"id":5242,"date":"2022-03-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEI-l4QYAeHsCrMotj9IMlGwqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzwwt4QY"},"modified":"2022-03-25T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T07:00:00","slug":"18-new-works-of-fiction-to-read-this-spring-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=5242","title":{"rendered":"18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/03\/25\/books\/review\/FIC-promo\/FIC-promo-facebookJumbo.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">This season, watch for new books by Emily St. John Mandel, Chris Bohjalian, Monica Ali and Douglas Stuart; a literary vampire story by Claire Kohda; and new novels in translation.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1tt7ig1 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-72702001\">FAMILY SAGAS<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">A follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u201cA Visit From the Goon Squad,\u201d this story picks up with familiar characters, including the friends and descendants of the music producer Bennie Salazar and his prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Sasha, who is now an installation artist of renown. But you don\u2019t need to be familiar with \u201cGoon Squad\u201d to enjoy this book, which opens with the \u201ctech demi-god\u201d Bix Bouton, who has created technology that allows people to upload their memories to an external consciousness and browse the experiences other users have shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Scribner, April 5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1tt7ig1 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-250ae836\">\u2018<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/groveatlantic.com\/book\/young-mungo\/\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Young Mungo<\/a>,\u2019 by Douglas Stuart<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/23\/books\/douglas-stuart-shuggie-bain.html\" title>Stuart<\/a> follows his debut novel, \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/11\/books\/review\/shuggie-bain-douglas-stuart.html\" title>Shuggie Bain<\/a>,\u201d which won the Booker Prize and earned praise for its portrayal of working class Scottish life, with a love story set in a Glasgow housing project. Two young men, Mungo and James, fall in love and imagine a brighter future for themselves while protecting their secret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Grove, April 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">As a young boy, Faraz is taken from his mother, who works in Lahore\u2019s red light district, and sent to live with distant relatives in a more respectable part of the city. Years later, his father \u2014 a political operator with connections throughout the city \u2014 asks him to return to the neighborhood to help contain the fallout of a young girl\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Riverhead, April 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">Smith has a notably fast literary metabolism: Her most recent novels, referred to as the Seasonal Quartet, incorporated contemporary political and social events \u2014 Brexit, immigration debates, climate change \u2014 practically in real time. Her latest<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\"> <\/span>opens when Sandy receives a mysterious call from a former classmate. The ingredients? An antique lock and key, a puzzling interaction with border control, and a bit of wordplay that could explain it all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Pantheon, May 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">Ali\u2019s 2003 novel, \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/07\/books\/east-enders.html\" title>Brick Lane<\/a>,\u201d centered on a young Bangladeshi woman who enters an arranged marriage and lives in Britain, and later discovered her own desires and strengths. Now, Ali focuses again on a marriage \u2014 between Yasmin, a 26-year-old of Indian ancestry studying to be a doctor, and Joe, a middle-class white man whose mother is an outspoken feminist. As the families prepare for the wedding, their beliefs and traditions evolve, a betrayal threatens to derail the marriage and a years-old secret comes to light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Scribner, May 3<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7daw59 e1mu4ftr0\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">The lives of characters living centuries apart converge in this time-traveling novel. They include an aristocrat\u2019s son on a trans-Atlantic journey, a grieving composer and a writer visiting Earth from her interstellar colony while on her book tour. During the visit, the writer faces endless questions from readers about the imaginary disease she wrote about \u2014 perhaps a sly reference to Mandel\u2019s own experience talking about her earlier novel, \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/14\/books\/review\/station-eleven-by-emily-st-john-mandel.html\" title>Station Eleven<\/a>,\u201d which took on <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/13\/books\/station-eleven-hbo-emily-st-john-mandel.html\" title>new resonance during the pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Knopf, April 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">This debut follows Daiyu, a Chinese girl in the 1880s, who reinvents herself to survive a string of tragedies. As a child, she is kidnapped and taken from China to the United States in the 1880s, sold into prostitution and escapes from California to Idaho. Later, she lives as a man, and deals with both external threats \u2014 including the rising tide of anti-Asian sentiment \u2014 and her private longings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Flatiron, April 5<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1tt7ig1 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-39dce821\">\u2018<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/678664\/trust-by-hernan-diaz\/\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trust<\/a>,\u2019 by Hernan Diaz<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">In Gilded Age New York, Benjamin and Helen Rask have risen to the top of society. The couple is the object of fascination: He is a successful Wall Street trader, she is the daughter of offbeat socialites, and together they amass a huge fortune. As the book progresses, readers get glimpses of their story, with each new perspective peeling back layers of intrigue and suppressed history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Riverhead, May 3<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7daw59 e1mu4ftr0\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1tt7ig1 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-7e65e1dc\">BOOKS IN TRANSLATION<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1tt7ig1 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4fb298db\">\u2018<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250838193\/thefaces\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Faces<\/a>,\u2019 by Tove Ditlevsen. Translated by Tiina Nunnally.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">Ditlevsen\u2019s collected memoirs, released last year in English as \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/26\/books\/review\/tove-ditlevsen-copenhagen-trilogy.html\" title>The Copenhagen Trilogy<\/a>,\u201d were among the Book Review\u2019s <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/30\/books\/review\/best-books-2021.html\" title>10 best books of 2021<\/a>, earning praise for \u201cstunning clarity, humor and candidness.\u201d Two works of fiction from the Danish writer will come this year, including \u201cThe Faces,\u201d a novel about a children\u2019s book author in 1960s Copenhagen grappling with creative frustrations, marital infidelity and the specter of insanity. \u201cThe Trouble With Happiness,\u201d too, unfolds in midcentury Copenhagen, following all manner of unhappy people. But if you know Ditlevsen\u2019s writing, you know she finds a way to make even misery luminous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">The Faces (Picador, April 19)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">The Trouble With Happiness (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, April 19)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1tt7ig1 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3c4da8e\">\u2018<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europaeditions.com\/book\/9781609456993\/all-the-lovers-in-the-night\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">All the Lovers in the Night<\/a>,\u2019 by Mieko Kawakami. Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/09\/world\/asia\/mieko-kawakami-breasts-and-eggs.html\" title>Kawakami has been a feminist voice<\/a> in her home country, Japan, with novels that tackle the interior lives of women. In this book, she follows Fuyuko, a solitary proofreader in her 30s whose connections with the outside world are a tenuous friendship with a colleague and her annual walks on her birthday. But when she meets a physics teacher in Tokyo, their shared fascination with light helps draw Fuyuko out, helping her confront her past \u2014 and her desire to change her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Europa, May 3<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1tt7ig1 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-b90c782\">\u2018<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndbooks.com\/book\/paradais\/\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Paradais<\/a>,\u2019 by Fernanda Melchor. Translated by Sophie Hughes.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">Long listed for the <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/paradais\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">International Booker<\/a>, this novel follows two miserable teenagers who meet at a gated community in Mexico. Franco Andrade is consumed by thoughts of his neighbor, the wife of a TV personality, and has an unhealthy appetite for pornography, while Polo, the community\u2019s gardener, is desperate to escape his own circumstances. Together, they concoct a plan that quickly spirals into violence and risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">New Directions, April 26<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7daw59 e1mu4ftr0\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1tt7ig1 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-658ea16\">PAGE TURNERS<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">In Garmus\u2019s debut novel, a frustrated chemist finds herself at the helm of a cooking show that sparks a revolution. Welcome to the 1960s, where a woman\u2019s arsenal of tools was often limited to the kitchen \u2014 and where Elizabeth Zott is hellbent on overturning the status quo one meal at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Doubleday, April 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">We\u2019ve seen sexy vampires, scary vampires and psychic vampires, but never one quite like the one in this ambitious debut. Lydia is a 23-year-old, mixed-race artist whose appetite can only be sated with a tall serving of blood. With wit and a poet\u2019s eye, Kohda examines cravings, desire and emptiness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">HarperVia, April 12<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1tt7ig1 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-225480d9\">\u2018<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/667268\/the-fervor-by-alma-katsu\/\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Fervor<\/a>,\u2019 by Alma Katsu<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">The author of \u201cThe Hunger\u201d and \u201cThe Deep\u201d \u2014 two hair-raising, twisty novels with deceptively simple titles \u2014 returns with \u201cThe Fervor.\u201d Having mined the Donner Party and the high seas for suffering and trauma, Katsu sets \u201cThe Fervor\u201d in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. The conditions there are hellish enough \u2026 and then a mysterious disease begins to spread among the imprisoned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Putnam, April 26<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">Hacienda San Isidro is the house of your worst nightmares. As we learn on the first page of Ca\u00f1as\u2019s supernatural suspense story (think \u201cMexican Gothic\u201d meets \u201cRebecca\u201d), \u201cwhite stucco walls rose like the bones of a long-dead beast jutting from dark, cracked earth.\u201d A young bride finds herself pulled into the clutches of this creepy place after being abandoned there by her new husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Berkley, May 3<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1tt7ig1 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-68d5deb8\">\u2018<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/550986\/the-lioness-by-chris-bohjalian\/\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Lioness<\/a>,\u2019 by Chris Bohjalian<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">If you\u2019re getting on a long flight and have no idea what book to bring, Bohjalian\u2019s novels are always a safe bet. If you\u2019re going on a safari, you may want to approach his latest with caution: It\u2019s the story of a lavish expedition in Tanzania in 1964 gone very wrong. The travelers are Hollywood A-listers; wildebeest and zebras abound; and Bohjalian steers this runaway Land Rover of a story into some wildly entertaining territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Doubleday, May 10<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">In Walker\u2019s long-awaited follow-up to \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/18\/arts\/television\/dietland-amc-marti-noxon.html\" title>Dietland<\/a>,\u201d a renowned artist living under an assumed identity is contacted by a hungry journalist \u2014 and now finds herself face-to-face with her past. This feminist Gothic thriller whisks readers from New Mexico in 2017 to Connecticut in 1950, straight into the bull\u2019s-eye of a firearms dynasty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Harper, May 17<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This season, watch for new books by Emily St. John Mandel, Chris Bohjalian, Monica Ali and Douglas Stuart; a literary vampire story by Claire Kohda; and new novels in translation. FAMILY SAGAS A follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u201cA Visit From the Goon Squad,\u201d this story picks up with familiar characters, including the friends and descendants of the music producer Bennie Salazar and his prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Sasha, who is now an installation artist of renown. But you don\u2019t need to be familiar with \u201cGoon Squad\u201d to enjoy this book, which opens with the \u201ctech demi-god\u201d Bix Bouton, who has created&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}