Sneak Peek: May 2018 Indie Next List

Four Macmillan titles made the May 2018 Indie Next List!

A LUCKY MAN by Jamel Brinkley – the #1 pick!
“It’s difficult to single out any story as most outstanding since they are each distinguished by Brinkley’s lyrical invention, precise descriptions of both emotional and physical terrain, and a prevailing compassion toward people as bemused by travail as they are taken aback by whatever epiphanies blossom before them. A major talent.” –Kirkus Reviews, starred review

HOW TO WALK AWAY by Katherine Center
Margaret Jacobson has a bright future ahead of her, with a fiancé and a promising career, until an accident on what should be one of the happiest days of her life takes it all away. “With its appealing characters and wisdom about grappling with life’s challenges, Center’s sixth novel has all the makings of a breakout hit.” –Booklist, starred review

MY EX-LIFE by Stephen McCauley
Many years after their divorce, David Hedges and Julie Fiske-each in the midst of a midlife crisis-find their paths crossing again. “As always, McCauley’s effervescent prose is full of wit and wisdom on every topic-college application essays, Airbnb operation, weed addiction, live porn websites, and, most of all, people . . . A gin and tonic for the soul.” –Kirkus Reviews

MOTHERHOOD by Sheila Heti
“The subject of the new novel from Heti is neither birth nor child-rearing, but the question of whether to want a child, which the unnamed narrator calls ‘the greatest secret I keep from myself’ . . . A book of sex (the real, unsensational kind), mood swings, and deep feminist thought, this volume is essentially a chronicle of vacillating ruminations of this big question . . . This lively, exhilaratingly smart, and deliberately, appropriately frustrating affair asks difficult questions about women’s responsibilities and desires, and society’s expectations.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review