I loved how Russell takes a familiar setting, in this case the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, and tips us over into a version of it and reality that is unfamiliar and unsettling. She has created here a world full of impossible things and made them seem possible and even necessary.
***Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction***
'Powerful' Financial Times 'A pure dust storm of utter genius' DAISY JOHNSON 'As profound as it is wonderfully strange' LAUREN GROFF
What do we choose to remember and what do we allow ourselves to forget?
Visit the Antidote of Uz - a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind and enter hers.
Until the Black Sunday storm, which flattens wheatfields, buries houses and vaporizes every memory stored inside the Antidote. She wakes up empty…
I'm a big fan of folk, fairy, and myth re-tellings, and this re-telling of Bearskin set in modern day Alaska ticked all the boxes. It was soulful and heartbreaking and hopeful all at the same time. Loved it!
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves?
“No one writes like Eowyn Ivey.”—Geraldine Brooks “You will find yourself in places you have never been.”—Louise Erdrich “Ivey is an enthralling storyteller.”—The New York Times Book Review
AN NPR AND SEATTLE TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Birdie's keeping it together; of course she is. So she's a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting…
Buxton takes readers to the heart of a dying mountain town in Italy and makes us want to live there. The people and places in this book feel so alive and real, and the story melted my heart.
From the author of Hollow Kingdom, a fantastically funny story featuring a cast of colorful characters in a dying Italian village and a giant truffle that changes their fate forever in this “deliciously absurd tale....I savored every page of this book.” (Shelby Van Pelt, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures)
A 2025 Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction
After nearly losing the election to a geriatric donkey, newly installed Mayor Delizia Miccuci can't help but feel like the sun has finally set on the rural Italian village of Lazzarini Boscarino. Tourists only stop by to ask for directions, Nonna Amara's cherished…
"Do not ignore a call from me when you know I am feeling neurotic about a boy. That is Best Friend 101." - Nash. Maggie and Nash are outsiders. She's overweight. He's out of the closet. The best of friends, they have seen each other through thick and thin, but when Tom moves to town at the start of the school year, they have something unexpected in common: feelings for the same guy.
