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Indie Next Pick

Jul

9

2020

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic smacks its subject right there on the cover. Moreno-Garcia, who has been doing fabulous work these last few years, rolls right along with a neo-Victorian gothic country house novel that is infused with fungal weirdness. It’s Daphne du Maurier meets H. P. Lovecraft, with—let’s be frank here—Moreno-Garcia’s own delightful decadence and …

Nov

30

2018

Alyson Hagy

Acts of Healing: A conversation with Alyson Hagy and her novel Scribe

SCRIBE by Alyson Hagy IndieNext #1 Pick for November Belletrist Book of the Month for October Finalist for the Southern Book Prize Alyson Hagy is a contemporary master novelist. I’m not talking about her adept and fierce attention to words or the long excellence which has won her many awards—a Pushcart Prize, the Nelson Algren …

Aug

31

2016

Riverine

Riverine by Angela Palm

Haunting and surprising yet immediately relatable, Palm’s striking memoir sinks its roots deep into readers and holds fast. Everything ordinary, Palm reveals, is extraordinary–tragic, profound, amusing, brutal–when examined up close. In reflecting on her own formative years, growing up ‘between points on the map’ in small-town Indiana, Palm paints a measured, unforgettable portrait of the …

Aug

17

2016

The Book That Matters Most

The Book That Matters Most
by Ann Hood

Hood offers the parallel stories of Ava, who is struggling to build a new life after the end of a long marriage, and her daughter, Maggie, living in Paris and descending into addiction. Ava is invited to join a book club whose members each suggest the book that matters most to them. In Ava’s case, …

Mar

5

2014

The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld

” The Enchanted is narrated by a nameless, omniscient death row inmate, who sees far and wide and deep as well. Through him we learn the stories that led the inmates to prison, as well as the unbearable reality that is prison. ‘The cell coagulates with an acrid smell that the boy doesn’t know but instantly recognizes. …

Nov

1

2012

Maria Semple, You Can Stay

After years of writing for television shows like Ellen, Mad About You, and the cult favorite Arrested Development, Maria Semple turned her focus to fiction. Her first novel, This One Is Mine, was an Indie Next pick and received rave reviews across the country, from the New York Observer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Her second …

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