New Indie Bookseller Picks

From: Penguin Random House - Tuesday Aug 30,2022 02:02 pm

Your August book recommendations are here.

We asked indie booksellers what they're reading and recommending this month! Take a look at new stories that will sweep you away.

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Marra effortlessly takes us back and forth in time and across oceans ... It's a masterful feat and a joy to experience. Hilarious, heartbreaking, and life-affirming, this book is an absolute gem.

Carroll Gelderman, The Garden District Bookshop

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Mercury Pictures Presents

By Anthony Marra

Written with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents spans many moods and tones, from the heartbreaking to the ecstatic. It is a love letter to life’s bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls “a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.”

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This novel's an intimate look into the lives of the residents of one run-down building in America's rust belt. It's told from and through many perspectives, always convincingly, never overwrought.

John Francisconi, P&T Knitwear Bookstore

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The Rabbit Hutch

By Tess Gunty

Set across one week and culminating in a shocking act of violence, Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch chronicles a town on the brink, desperate for rebirth. How far will its residents — especially Blandine — go to achieve it? A gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and community, entrapment and freedom, The Rabbit Hutch announces a major new voice in American fiction, one bristling with intelligence and vulnerability.