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Enon

By Paul Harding

A follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winner Tinkers, the novel follows a year in the life of Charlie Crosby (grandson of Tinkers protagonist) as he struggles with personal tragedy.

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Claire of the Sea Light

By Edwidge Danticat

As a father makes a wrenching decision in the hope it will offer his young daughter a better life, the child disappears. Set in Haiti, with stretches between fable, folk tale, and devastating reality.

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Dissident Gardens

By Jonathan Lethem

Lethem follows a mother and daughter, as well as their lovers and sons, through multiple decades and modes of political activism, from Communism to Occupy Wall Street.

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Men We Reaped

By Jesmyn Ward

In five years, Ward lost five men in her life, all black, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the by-products of poverty. A sobering new memoir, hard to read and harder to forget.

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The Affairs of Others

By Amy Grace Loyd

Celia, a widow and landlord, rents to a volatile woman on the run. As Celia is roped into the messy, sensual lives of her neighbors, she rediscovers passion and desire.