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June’s second batch of paperbacks kicks off with three novels I read and enjoyed last year beginning with Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin which opens in 2020 with a renowned British artist and his wife holed up on a wealthy collector’s New York country estate under lockdown. When Jay delivers groceries to a palatial house, he’s […]
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I snapped up Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin on NetGalley, attracted by its art theme. I’ve read and enjoyed several of his previous novels including White Tears which explored racism through the New York music scene. His new novel’s set in 2020, just months after the pandemic had much of the world in lockdown including an
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Whereas I’d read all the first batch of March paperbacks, I’ve read none of these – something I hope to remedy shortly. I’m particularly looking forward to Ayòbámi Adébáyò‘s Stay with Me which takes us to Nigeria in the turbulent 1980s where Yejide is desperate for a child. She’s tried everything she knows, from medical
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Given all that’s been happening in the US over the past few years, it’s a brave author who decides to write a piece of fiction about contemporary America but perhaps Hari Zunzru’s White Tears isn’t the state of the nation novel it first appears, more a comment on race relations. Two very different young New
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