TITLE: The Testaments
AUTHOR: Margaret Atwood WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Atw - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Set fifteen years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate, this sequel to The Handmaid's Tale relates the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead. |
TITLE: Lincoln in the Bardo
AUTHOR: George Saunders WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sau - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: From the seed of historical truth that is the death of President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son Willie, George Saunders spins a story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm ... Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state--called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo--a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. |
TITLE: The Sellout
AUTHOR: Paul Beatty WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bea - HUMOR SUMMARY: A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court. |
TITLE: The Luminaries
AUTHOR: Eleanor Catton WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Cat - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in agold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries. |
TITLE: Life of Pi
AUTHOR: Yann Martel WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mar - ADVENTURE SUMMARY: Following a shipwreck, a sixteen-year-old Indian boy and a Bengal tiger drift for several months in a lifeboat. |
TITLE: The Blind Assassin
AUTHOR: Margaret Atwood WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Atw - NOVELS SUMMARY: In the aftermath of the second World War and her sister's suicide, Iris witnesses an unlikely series of events that are interwoven with the sci-fi tale of a pair of anonymous lovers and the death of Iris' industrialist husband. |
TITLE: The Remains of the Day
AUTHOR: Kazuo Ishiguro WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ish - NOVELS SUMMARY: An English butler reflects-sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously-on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity. |