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Thursday, May 20, 2021
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BOOK NOOK
New in paperback: Prose that spans the globe, a
prescient novel about a plague and more
By Moira Macdonald
The Seattle Times
(TNS) — Need a thrilling read?
A timely nonfiction collection? A
trip back to a literary corner of
1920s London?
Here they are ... and all in paper-
back, too.
DJINN PATROL ON THE
PURPLE LINE
by Deepa Anappara
The first novel from Anappara, a
journalist who spent years work-
ing in Mumbai and Delhi, India,
won the Edgar Award last month
for best novel, presented by the
Mystery Writers of America. It’s the
story of a 9-year-old boy who lives
in a slum in an imaginary Indian
city, and who turns detective when
one of his classmates disappears.
“Rich with easy joy, Anappara’s
writing announces the arrival of a
literary supernova,” wrote a New
York Times reviewer, adding as a
warning, “If you begin reading the
book in the morning, don’t expect
to get anything done for the rest of
the day.”
THE HOLDOUT
by Graham Moore
I remember disappearing into
this legal thriller — why are there
never enough good legal thrill-
ers? — when it came out a year
ago. Moore, author of the delightful
historical thriller “The Sherlock-
ian,” here tells a very contemporary
tale of a young woman juror who
must deal with the fallout, decades
later, of being the lone holdout on a
murder trial.
“This stellar novel from best-
seller Moore ... takes a searing look
at the U.S. justice system, media
scrutiny, and racism,” writes a
Publishers Weekly reviewer, in a
starred review. “Moore has set a
new standard for legal thrillers.”
THERE’S A REVOLUTION
OUTSIDE, MY LOVE:
LETTERS FROM A CRISIS
edited by Tracy K.
Smith and John Freeman
disdained convention to fulfill their
potential as thinkers and writers.”
The 40 essays, letters and poems
in this collection were written in
response to last year’s protests over
racial inequity and police brutality.
“Angry, rueful, and defiant,
the impressive roster of award-
winning writers and academics
portrays a nation wracked by
pain,” wrote a reviewer in a starred
Kirkus Review.
Ware’s engrossing thrillers are
always worth a read — I especially
liked “The Death of Mrs. West-
away” — and this one sounds nicely
Agatha Christie-ish: A group of
guests in a mountain resort in the
French Alps are trapped after an
avalanche ... and yes, you guessed
it, they start getting bumped off
one by one.
“As in Christie’s mysteries, part
of the great pleasure of reading
‘One by One’ lies in rereading key
passages and realizing how dim
one was (as a reader) the first
time round,” wrote a Washington
Post reviewer. “Much of the crucial
information is out in the open,
right there on the page in dialogue
and description, but Ware expertly
scatters red herrings galore so that
even the most alert reader becomes
diverted into false deductions and
dead ends.”
SQUARE HUNTING: FIVE
WRITERS IN LONDON
BETWEEN THE WARS
by Francesca Wade
I snapped this one up while
celebrating Independent Bookstore
Day last month and can’t wait to
dive into the story of five brilliant
women — poet H.D., detective nov-
elist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist
Jane Harrison, economic historian
Eileen Power and author/publisher
Virginia Woolf — who lived in the
same London square in the years
between the two World Wars.
A reviewer in The Guardian
called it “an eloquent, pellucid,
sometimes poignant study of five
female intellectuals, each of whom
ONE BY ONE
by Ruth Ware
THE END OF OCTOBER
by Lawrence Wright
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-
winning author of “The Looming
Tower,” Wright apparently can
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predict the future: This novel, about
a worldwide viral plague initially
dismissed as just a bad flu, was
published in early 2020. And it’s
apparently quite rewarding.
A New York Times reviewer com-
pared it to Daniel Defoe’s “A Jour-
nal of the Plague Year,” noting that
Wright’s “deep, thorough research”
makes the book exceptional, with
the author applying “the magiste-
rial force of his reporting skills into
spinning a novel of pestilence, war
and social collapse that, given the
current pandemic, cuts exceedingly
close to the bone.”