- Hilary Plum and I discuss families in fiction over at the Kenyon Review Blog. We each wrote mini-reviews of a few books. I talked about Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits, Karl Taro Greenfeld's NowTrends and Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors. I really enjoyed revisiting these books with a particular theme or element in mind. Let's do it again.
Here are a few of the other books I read and enjoyed this year (they weren't all published this year):
If the Heart Is Lean, Margaret Luongo
Assorted Fire Events, David Means
It's Beginning to Hurt, James Lasdun
Alligator Dance, Janet Peery
Hunters and Gamblers, Ryan Ridge
The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson
The Boat, Nam Le
The Lonely Voice, Frank O'Connor
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature, Patrick Somerville
Us, Michael Kimball
Knuckleheads, Jeff Kass
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, Maile Malloy
I really need to read more women writers next year.
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