If there's one person whose books fully encompass what it means to have a thorough, unbreakable bond among friends, it's Terry McMillan. It’s Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan (Ballantine Feb. When a client he works for is murdered, Danny must choose between admitting what he knows - that his client was having an affair with a doctor whose jacket was found at the scene of the crime, thus risking deportation - or staying silent. Danny is an undocumented immigrant originally from Sri Lanka who lives and works in Australia as a cleaner. Amnesty, his fifth book, similarly deals with the haves and the have-nots. 9)Īdiga burst onto the literary scene with his Booker Prize–winning debut, White Tiger: a withering indictment of class inequality and a darkly comic story of a poor Indian driver who murders his boss. Russell is particularly adept at capturing the tortuous psychological effect this relationship wreaks on Vanessa it's a very readable, slow-burning thriller. The novel jumps back and forth in time between the late ’90s, when 15-year-old Vanessa first meets and eventually ends up in a sexual relationship with her high school English teacher Jacob Strane, to 2017 during the height of #MeToo, when 32-year-old Vanessa is pressured to publicize a relationship she spent years convincing herself wasn’t abusive. This slow-burning thriller follows Vanessa Wye, a woman whose decadeslong predatory relationship with her high school teacher has lasting repercussions for her years later. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (William Morrow Feb. Residents try to make sense of the shooting as the mystery behind it slowly unravels in this latest novel by the National Book Award winner. It’s 1960s New York Cuffy Lambkin, better known as Sportcoat, a deacon at the Five Ends Baptist Church, has just shot 19-year-old drug dealer Deems Clemens in the face, instantly putting a target on his back. Deacon King Kong by James McBride (Riverhead Feb. In her second book, she upends some popular myths about George Washington - with approval from acclaimed historians like Doris Kearns Goodwin, who has given this book a hearty endorsement. Historian Alexis Coe is certainly not your parents’ fuddy-duddy historian, coming to general acclaim for her irreverent, witty approach to chronicling history. You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe (Penguin Books Feb. But these are also people whose desire, rage, and ambition are underestimated or misunderstood, and Yuknavitch shines a light on them in bite-size, evocative, and often uncomfortable stories. This short story collection refers to the characters on the verge: people forced to the edges of society, outcasts marginalized for their status, proclivity, or misfortune. Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch (Riverhead Feb.
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