Miranda Popkey’s slim novel chronicles the inner lives of women and their desires.
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“Blue Marlin” Is an Instant Southern Classic Set in Postwar Key West
Wiley Smith on Lee Smith’s new novel, set between Virginia and Florida.
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“The Everlasting” Is a Stunning, Subversive Love Letter to Rome
Katy Simpson Smith’s new historical novel spans two millennias in the immortal city.
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“Hurricane Season” Is Like “2666” Meets Hieronymus Bosch
Mesha Maren on Fernanda Melchor’s slim, brutal novel set in small-town Mexico.
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The Journalist Who Helped Solve the Mississippi Burning Murders
“Race Against Time” is the story of reporter Jerry Mitchell’s decades-long search for truth.
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Anxiety, Grief and Other Invisible Illnesses in YA Fiction
North Carolina teens bond through their mental health journeys in Nora Shalaway Carpenter’s “The Edge of Anything.”
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“Barn 8” Is a Clever, Rural Spin on “Ocean’s 8”
Egg auditors plan a heist to steal a million chickens in Deb Olin Unferth’s new novel.
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North Carolina’s Forgotten Race Massacre
“Wilmington’s Lie” revisits the state’s white supremacist violence of 1898.
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