New book arrivals:
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| The Song of the Jade Lily |
Genre: historical and contemporary fiction
Setting: Vienna, Shanghai, Australia
I'm enjoying reading this novel about a Jewish family escaping from Nazi occupied Austria, traveling to Shanghai, China as refugees. We follow young Romy and her parents in Shanghai, moving back and forth in time to when Romy has her own family and grandchildren in Australia after leaving China at the end of WWII. And we see Romy's granddaughter Alexandra, trying to find her way in the present, 2016, through her family's wartime history.
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| The Great Pretenders |
Setting: Hollywood in the 1950s
Roxanne forges a career unique for women in the 1950s, becoming an agent for hungry young screenwriters. When she sells a script by a blacklisted writer under the name of a willing front man, more exiled writers seek her help.
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| Cygnet |
Genre: coming-of-age tale
A 17-year-old young woman comes of age in a community of the elderly rejecting the promise of youth.
Setting: an isolated island off New Hampshire populated by a community of the elderly
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| All of Us With Wings |
YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl
The Snakes by Sadie Jones, June 25, 2019, Harper |
| The Snakes |
Genre: contemporary fiction
Bea and Dan, recently married, visit Bea’s dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy, France. Disturbingly, they find him all alone and the ramshackle hotel deserted, apart from the nest of snakes in the attic.
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| The Perfect Fraud |
Genre: contemporary fiction
Claire works in the family business and calls herself a psychic, but she doesn’t really have “the gift” and hasn’t for a long time. She’s a fraud. When she meets Rena and Rena's disturbed daughter, events collide.
Which of the above books would you read first? Why?
Memes: The Sunday Post hosted by The Caffeinated Bookreviewer, Stacking the Shelves, and It's Monday, What Are You Reading? by Book Date., and Mailbox Monday.
