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Powell's Staff: Powell's 2023 Book Preview: The Fourth Quarter (0 comment)
For our final Book Preview of 2024, we thought we’d look at our list by the numbers (since math is such a bookseller forte). On this list, you’ll find 53 books, including 3 memoirs, 4 debut novels, 2 anthologies, 7 follow-ups to debuts that we’ve been rabidly anticipating, 5 new entries into beloved series, and 4 cookbooks...
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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga [isbn]

This book asks a lot of delicious rhetorical questions, both formally and philosophically. Flip through the first few pages and you'll see what I mean. (Go ahead and pick it up — I'll wait.) It is a love story that is not about love, but perspective, and it is wholly unlike anything else I have ever read, which is perhaps why nothing I can say about it will satisfy me as being enough. Listen: this book is dense yet propulsive; disorienting yet... (read more)
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O Caledonia

Elspeth Barker [isbn]

Elspeth Barker is one of those rare writers whose charisma can be felt through the page. Originally released in 1991, her only novel is an enigmatic, poetic, and dark-but-humorous story that plays with genre and Gothic aesthetic. Our young heroine, Janet, is ill-fated and yet the story is not about her end; it is an illumination and a celebration of her life in spite of the end. To fans of castles, brooding landscapes, witty narrative, or the... (read more)
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Tides

Sara Freeman [isbn]

True to the title, author Sara Freeman has structured this novel in small segments that ebb and flow like tides, rolling across the pages and propelling you dreamily through the story of a woman who, after a grave loss, detaches from all structures of her life like a boat pushing out to sea and drifts to a small seaside town. What follows is a delicate and haunting story told as much in the margins as in the prose. I highly recommend this to... (read more)
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