Looking for a good book? Here's a roundup of six new, hard-to-put-down novels.
Sometimes, you just need a book that’s short and sweet. Two women — 20-something Joan, and Imogen, a generation older — begin a friendship over correspondence in 1962, inspired by a mutual interest in cooking and writing. Life unfolds throughout their letters, along with some delicious-sounding recipes.
That this operation does not go smoothly is part of the novel’s pleasure: Ginder immerses us into his world so irresistibly that when an implausible last-act twist comes along, we ride it unquestioningly. It’s a pleasure to find a book that’s genuinely funny. But beneath the wit, there’s a warm tale of family ties, no matter how crazy-making they might be.
Sprawling and ambitious and yet beautifully contained, “The Family Chao” lets us spend time with this family, hearing their grievances, smelling the inlaid odors of the restaurant, listening to the quiet of a small town where things don’t happen.Olga Acevedo, a Manhattan wedding planner, “allowed herself to become distracted from the true American dream — accumulating money — by its phantom cousin, accumulating fame.
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