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Barbara’s Picks (Julia Alvarez, Sebastian Barry, Dalia Sofer), Plus Debuts & Diversity: Literary Fiction Previews, Apr. 2020, Pt. 3 | Prepub Alert
Literary Fiction Picks
Alvarez, Julia. Afterlife. Algonquin. Apr. 2020. 272p. ISBN 9781643750255. $25.95. LITERARY
Immigrant writer Antonia Vega was looking forward to retirement from her college professorship, but her husband has died unexpectedly. Then her generous if rocky sister disappears, the undocumented migrant teenager who’s come her way happens to be pregnant, and Antonia has much to handle—with her beloved books not always giving her the answers. From the sparkling author of In the Time of the Butterflies, a Big Reads selection that has sold over a million copies in print; with a 100,000-copy first printing and a ten-city tour to Boston, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Minneapolis, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.
Barry, Sebastian. A Thousand Moons. Viking. Apr. 2020. 272p. ISBN 9780735223103. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780735223127. LITERARY
Costa winner and three-time Man Booker short-listee Barry takes us to post–Civil War Tennessee, where John Cole and former soldier buddy Thomas McNulty raise orphaned Lakota child Winona Cole on a farmstead with the help of two free
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Man of My Time
Bound galleys of Dalia Sofer’s Man of My Time happened to go out just as political tensions started to escalate between the US and Iran over the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani. Some weeks later, as we publish this novel, the entire world is reeling not from a Middle Eastern political crisis but from a pandemic. Yet, amid this catastrophe, Man of My Time has garnered a rare four-out-of-four starred pre-publication reviews, and Rebecca Makkai has called it, “A master class in the layering of time and contradiction,” in a front page New York Times Book Review. Sofer had a conversation with her editor, Ileene Smith, about her new book.
Ileene Smith: Dalia, this is obviously an unprecedented time to publish a book. Yet, so many friends and colleagues have remarked on the particular solace of storytelling, of fiction. In this way, your novel, Man of My Time, feels like the archetypal literary book being published into this very uncertain moment. It is neither explicitly nor implicitly about the pandemic. Yet, your novel about a fractured Iranian family is a reckoning with so many issues raised by this scourge: family, separation, conscience, loneliness. These themes seem to resonate in new ways through what we are living now.
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