Upcoming Literary Fiction (1/11/24)

If you’re craving a look back at the 1960’s, a unique family saga, a sci-fi graphic novel, a thriller centered around a mother and daughter, an LGBTQ+ coming-of-age story, or a look into the tiny organisms that surround us, then you’ll surely find something here!

THORN TREE BY MAX LUDINGTON

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“Ludington delivers a vibrant narrative of art, love, and the lingering damage of 1960s excess… Ludington rachets up the suspense as Daniel and Jack’s encounters build to a reckoning and a dangerous showdown. Readers won’t want to put this down.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review

THE HOUSE OF BROKEN BRICKS BY FIONA WILLIAMS

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“Williams’s debut, set in the English countryside, features the stories of four family members, told through their alternating perspectives. There’s Tess, who longs for London; Richard, who uprooted the family for a farming life; and their 10-year-old twins, one presenting as Black, the other white.”–Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert

GLEEM BY FREDDY CARRASCO

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A boy becomes bored at church with his grandmother until he tries a psychedelic drug. A group of friends are told that they need a rare battery if they want any chance of reviving their friend. Street style and cybernetics meet and burst into riotous dancing. Kindness and violence might not be as distant from each other as we think. This book unsettles with a confidence that could make you believe in anything.

THE RED GROVE BY TESSA FONTAINE

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The Red Grove is a special place, protected. Some say a spell was cast by the community’s founder, Tamsen Nightingale. Some say the mountain lions who stalk the nearby hills guard its mysteries and its people. Some say the mighty redwoods keep them safe.

IN TONGUES BY THOMAS GRATTAN

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It’s 2001, and 24 year-old Gordon takes a bus from Minnesota to NYC because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. He gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs, but it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him—and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself.

CLUB MICROBE BY ELISE GRAVEL

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Germs live all around us—and even inside of us! In this formidable introduction to the fascinating world of microorganisms, we learn that some microbes get a bad rep for making us sick, but that most are helpful creatures that allow us to digest food, make cheese, and even enable snowflakes to form in winter.

THORN TREE by Max Ludington; 9781250288714; 4/16/24
THE HOUSE OF BROKEN BRICKS by Fiona Williams; 9781250896766; 4/9/24
GLEEM by Freddy Carrasco; 9781770467101; 4/16/24
THE RED GROVE by Tessa Fontaine; 9780374605810; 5/14/24
IN TONGUES by Thomas Grattan; 9780374608187; 5/21/24
CLUB MICROBE by Elise Gravel; 9781770467026; 4/2/24