BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS

BEA 2012 Recommended Fiction (page 5)

FICTION

Released: Oct. 23, 2012

THE MIDDLESTEINS

by Jami Attenberg

"A sharp-tongued, sweet-natured masterpiece of Jewish family life."

From Attenberg (The Melting Season, 2010, etc.), the deeply satisfying story of a Chicago family coming apart at the seams and weaving together at the same time. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Jan. 8, 2013

MISTRESS OF MY FATE

by Hallie Rubenhold

"A tantalizing introduction."

First of a trilogy about virtue compromised and beauty commodified, set in late-18th-century England. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Feb. 1, 2013

SCHRODER

by Amity Gaige

"Smart, comic, unsettling, yet strangely of a piece--not unlike its disarming lead character."

A man's collapsed marriage and growing madness imperils his young daughter in this bracing third novel by Gaige (The Folded World, 2007, etc.). Read full book review >