Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You is a poignant, penetrating investigation of one family’s tragedy. Ng (pronounced “ing”) unravels the story of the Lee family after the disappearance of Lydia, the second child and oldest girl of two parents whose lives have sharply deviated from the futures they imagined. Marilyn and James…
The day I meet Laurel Snyder in her Ormewood Park home is cold and clear. Her house brims with books: a full bookshelf sits next to the entryway, a side table overflows with latest picks from the library. It is clear that this is a home preoccupied with reading. The author of five children’s novels…
Sheri Joseph’s novel Where You Can Find Me (Thomas Dunne Books), a finalist for the 2014 Townsend Prize, follows a family recovering from horrifying tragedy. Caleb Vincent, 14 years old and wearing new glasses, has just returned to his childhood home after being abducted by a pedophile ring three years earlier. The prying news cameras swirl…
Gabrielle Zevin’s New York Times best-selling novel The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry tells the tale of a curmudgeonly bookstore owner who finds transformation through novels and relationships. It is also a story about the ways reading and physical books can bind people together. When A.J.’s young wife dies, his life starts to unravel. His bookstore,…
Jonathan Odell’s new novel Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League is a timely and transporting tale of racial tension and friendship in pre-civil-rights-era Mississippi, an era brimming with problems that resonate with our own. Set in the 1950s, on the cusp of the civil rights era, Miss Hazel follows Hazel and her black maid Vida,…
ArtsATL asked six prominent Atlantans to share a favorite book from their 2014 reading lists and received a diverse array of responses, encompassing fiction, history, biography and psychology. Here’s what they had to say about their picks. Kevin Gillespie: The Son by Philipp Meyer It’s a very interesting story of a multigenerational Texas family….
Georgia author Ted Dunagan has created a niche for himself in the genre of young adult fiction. A Yellow Watermelon (New South Books, 2008), his first novel, was on the inaugural list of “25 Books Every Young Georgian Should Read” selected by the Georgia Center for the Book in 2010, and he was young adult…
Azar Nafisi’s international blockbuster Reading Lolita in Tehran chronicled her surreptitious teaching of forbidden Western texts in an Iran plagued by Islamic fundamentalism. The 2003 memoir is a hymn to the power and necessity of reading. In her most recent book, The Republic of the Imagination, Nafisi, who will speak at Decatur’s First Baptist Church…
Charlie Lovett’s sophomore novel, First Impressions, pulses with suspense and glitters with literary allusions. Alternating between the present and early 19th-century England, the story explores the connectivity of literature. Sophie Collingwood is looking for a rare second edition written by an unknown Restoration-era minister when she discovers that Jane Austen might have written part of it….
To say that Paolo Giordano’s The Human Body is only about war is like saying that Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is only about hunting whales. Yes, the main characters are soldiers, and the battle scenes vibrate with pain, but the novel is about far more than tactics and recovery. The Human Body is a contemplation…
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