Far from touristy beaches, a woman harboring a hazardous secret does what it takes to transcend poverty, in this novel from Nicole Dennis-Benn.
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Month: June 2016
Newly Released Books Include ‘Chronicle of a Last Summer’
Novels from Cathleen Schine, Daniel Saldaña París and a new edition of a Jane Gardam work are also available.
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Books of The Times: Review: In ‘Jackson, 1964,’ Calvin Trillin Reports on Race
This collection of more than 50 years of Mr. Trillin’s articles for The New Yorker about civil rights has literary as well as historical weight.
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‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction
The New York Times Book Review asked the acclaimed novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to write a short story about the American election.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘The Return,’ a Son’s Pained Search for a Missing Father
Hisham Matar’s memoir centers on his father, a Libyan dissident who was kidnapped in 1990 and taken to the notorious Abu Salim prison, and whose fate remains unknown.
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