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BEA 2012 Recommended Fiction (page 5)


Cover art for BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK
FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012

"War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity. "
Hailed as heroes on a stateside tour before returning to Iraq, Bravo Squad discovers just what it has been fighting for. Read full book review >
Cover art for MURDER AT THE LANTERNE ROUGE
FICTION
Released: March 6, 2012

"Black's 12th lets readers peek into a corner of Paris that Fodor's leaves out."
Aimée Leduc (Murder in Passy, 2011, etc.) helps her partner clear his girlfriend of a grisly crime. Read full book review >
Cover art for THEN CAME YOU
FICTION
Released: July 12, 2011

"The conflicts enmeshing all these characters, as each becomes embroiled in Marcus and India's "assisted gestation" scheme, are gripping, and Weiner's elucidation of socio-economic determinism is as sharp as ever. However, the ending does not so much jump the shark as de-fang it."
Four women confront the quandaries surrounding modern motherhood, in Weiner's fraught latest (In Her Shoes, 2002, etc.). Read full book review >