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Deacon King Kong
James McBride
★★★★· Published 2020· 384 pages· read 2021
A Brooklyn housing project in 1969, after an old deacon shoots a drug dealer in broad daylight. Sprawling, funny, and full of life.
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★ 5Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Kathleen Rooney
An 85-year-old former ad copywriter walks across Manhattan on New Year's Eve, remembering her whole dazzling life. I adored her.
★ 5Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
A coal merchant in small-town Ireland has to decide whether to look away. Tiny book, enormous moral weight. Cried, naturally.
The Director
Daniel Kehlmann
A brilliant, unsettling novel about a real Austrian director who came home from Hollywood to make films under Goebbels. Kehlmann turns the compromises of art under fascism into something you can't look away from. Booker-shortlisted.