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New & Notable Fiction: January, 2013 (page 2)

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FICTION
Released: Jan. 15, 2013
Kirkus Star THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE
by Ayana Mathis
"An excellent debut that finds layers of pathos within a troubled clan."
The legacy of the Great Migration from the 1920s to the 1980s infuses this cutting, emotional collection of linked stories. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 15, 2013
Kirkus Star ENEMY OF MINE
by Brad Taylor
"Satisfies from start to finish."
This is Taylor's third Pike Logan thriller, and it's a good one. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 2013
Kirkus Star I, HOGARTH
by Michael Dean
"A brilliant exercise in imagination and storytelling."
Dean (Thorn, 2011) imagines the life, spirit and art of the English artist William Hogarth. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 2013
Kirkus Star THE PAINTED GIRLS
by Cathy Marie Buchanan
"Buchanan does a masterful job of interweaving historical figures into her plot, but it is the moving yet unsentimental portrait of family love, of two sisters struggling to survive with dignity, that makes this a must-read."
Buchanan (The Day the Falls Stood Still, 2009) brings the unglamorous reality of the late-19th-century Parisian demimonde into stark relief while imagining the life of Marie Van Goethem, the actual model for the iconic Degas statue Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 8, 2013
Kirkus Star THE ONE I LEFT BEHIND
by Jennifer McMahon
"Readers will find themselves unable to turn the pages fast enough in this perfectly penned thriller."
Although the title seems irrelevant to the plot, McMahon scores a solid touchdown in this creepy but engrossing thriller. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 8, 2013
Kirkus Star THE HISTORY OF US
by Leah Stewart
"With a playwright's precise, sometimes excoriating dialogue and an insightful novelist's judicious use of interior monologue, Stewart crafts a tearful yet unsentimental family coming-of-age story."
A professor who raised her late sister's three children grapples with the long-term consequences. Read full book review >