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New & Notable Fiction: March 2012 (page 4)

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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
Kirkus Star THE COWARD'S TALE
by Vanessa Gebbie
"With the hypnotic charm of her Welsh lilt, natural storyteller Gebbie whittles tales from a hard bone of loss to create a profoundly moving world."
After two collections of stories published in England, Wales native Gebbie sets her first, deceptively loose-limbed novel in a Welsh mining town whose present-day residents remain imprinted by a long-ago mining disaster. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
Kirkus Star ARCADIA
by Lauren Groff
"A novel of "the invisible tissue of civilization," of "community or freedom," and of the precious fragility of lives in the balance."
An astonishing novel, both in ambition and achievement, filled with revelations that appear inevitable in retrospect, amid the cycle of life and death. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
Kirkus Star EXOGENE
by T.C. McCarthy
"This exciting and thoughtful story marks McCarthy as one of sci-fi's most promising new talents, and bodes well for the series' forthcoming third installment."
The second novel in McCarthy's Subterrene War series (Germline, 2011, etc.) is a standalone tale that encompasses theology and existentialism in its story of a genetically engineered warrior discovering her own path. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
Kirkus Star FORGOTTEN COUNTRY
by Catherine Chung
"Chung's limpid prose matches her emotional intelligence."
A young woman struggles to understand her sometimes-competing roles as daughter, sister, scholar and Korean American in Chung's darkly luminous debut. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
Kirkus Star MAKE IT STAY
by Joan Frank
"First-class fiction."
A novel that peers into relationships in the small town of Mira Flores in northern California. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
Kirkus Star POISON FLOWER
by Thomas Perry
"A tour de force with no room for subtle characterization, complicated moral dilemmas or descriptions of anything that's not instantly material to Jane's job—just an hours-long jolt of pure, adrenaline-fueled plot."
Jane Whitefield's latest attempt to hide someone other people are looking for puts her in even more danger than usual, and that's not easy. Read full book review >