![]() ![]() Toggling between mid-20th-century Korea and today's American Midwest, this sweeping epic centers on the life of an immigrant doctor but spans out to provide a moving vision of modern history and the people who are caught in its terrible, grinding gears. The Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok Lee (2022) Her new book - a kind of companion to her 2014 best-seller, Station Eleven - is an ambitious, time-traveling puzzle box about the ways in which we humans are always living at the end of the world. ![]() I love the fearlessness and insistent humanity of Mandel's work. Tyler, now 80, weaves together the lives of a Baltimore family over decades, and her insights are as incisive, funny, and moving as ever. But I was particularly thrilled to see a new book from Anne Tyler, whose work I've loved since I read Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant in college. ![]() ![]() This has already been a stellar year for books, with new work from greats like Jennifer Egan, Jean Thompson, and Marlon James. Below, the author of Ill Will and You Remind Me of Me recommends six other new books. In Dan Chaon's new novel, Sleepwalk, an easygoing mercenary is pulled into a mystery when he's contacted by a woman who claims to be his daughter. ![]()
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