Literary Fiction Spotlight (12/14/22)

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This literary fiction spotlight has something for every reader, including an examination of identity starring a grandmother and her twenty-something grandson under lockdown, a sweeping and graceful story of two families on opposite sides of the Atlantic during World War II, and gripping insight into the human urge to ensure survival.

KÜNSTLERS IN PARADISE by Cathleen Schine

Available for download on Edelweiss know more. LibraryReads votes due by February 1st.

“While job hunting, slightly lost New Yorker Julian Künstler is trapped in Los Angeles by COVID and ends up bunking with feisty 93-year-old grandmother Mamie, whose family arrived in California in 1939 from Vienna. And has she got stories to tell about the community that surrounded them—from the Jewish artists and intellectuals who fled Hitler to the likes of Christopher Isherwood and Greta Garbo.”–Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert

BEYOND THAT, THE SEA by Laura Spence-Ash

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“In Spence-Ash’s BEYOND THAT, THE SEA, Bea Thompson is sent from bomb-blasted World War II London to live in safety with a family in Boston, MA, and becomes so contented with her new life that she is reluctant to return home.”–Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert

BIRNAM WOOD by Eleanor Catton

Available for download on Edelweiss know more. LibraryReads votes due by February 1st.

“Founder of the guerrilla gardening group Birnam Wood, which plants crops in neglected spots like roadsides and untended parks, Mira Bunting sees an opportunity following a major landslide; beyond the rumble, they can create a huge, sustainable farm on abandoned land. The only problem: billionaire Robert Lemoine wants the land to build a bunker. Can they work together?”–Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert

KÜNSTLERS IN PARADISE by Cathleen Schine; 9781250805904; 3/14/23
BEYOND THAT, THE SEA by Laura Spence-Ash; 9781250854377; 3/21/23
BIRNAM WOOD by Eleanor Catton; 9780374110338; 3/7/23

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