The Names
Florence Knapp
A baby is born during the great storm of 1987, and the name his mother chooses splits his life into three timelines across 35 years. A gutting debut about how much one choice can carry.
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★ 5How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Angie Cruz
Cara Romero is 56, recently unemployed, and reporting to a government job program in 1980s New York. The whole novel is just her talking — to her caseworker, across a desk, week after week. It’s funny and sad and textured. Now that I think about it, it’d be a great follow-up read to The Correspondent.
★ 5I Could Live Here Forever
Hanna Halperin
A woman falls hard for a man in recovery, knowing exactly how it might end. Halperin makes the ache feel completely real.
The Ten Year Affair
Erin Somers
A sliding-doors novel about two happily-married-just-not-to-each-other parents and the affair that plays out in one timeline and stays imagined in the other. Witheringly sharp about millennial marriage.