A novel set in Havana, a new set of poets laureate for Massachusetts, and the return of the Nantucket Literary Festival with a virtual Juneteenth panel Nina MacLaughlin
Cuban memories
Dariel Suarez’s taut and propulsive debut novel, “The Playwright’s House” (Red Hen), set in present-day Cuba, begins with Seguey’s father, an acclaimed theater director, getting arrested under shadowy circumstances. Seguey, a lawyer who ascended out of the grimmer conditions in which he and his brother Victor grew up, sets about trying to figure out what’s happened, and what he can do to solve it. In the process, he begins to operate on his own accord, “forced himself to act instead of calculate, to viscerally take a stance.” Suarez, author of the award-winning short fiction collection “A Kind of Solitude” and education director at Grub Street, makes Havana’s texture palpable, its streets, rooftops, sodas, its energy, contradictions, and the everpresent force
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The ARTery s literature writer Katherine Ouellette selects 10 books to read this spring. (Courtesy the publishers)
Now that spring weather has graced us with its mild temperatures, daylight has been saved, and the vaccine will soon be available to all adults in Massachusetts, there are plenty of reasons for your mood to be on the sunnier side. This past year has provided plenty of opportunities for intense personal reflections, so these 10 books by New England authors are fitting food for thought as you’re waiting for the lucky ticket on the vaccine scheduling website. With topics ranging from magical cults to internal superhuman strength, from the many faces of grief to hopeful self-discoveries in the midst of burnout, there are many ways these authors remind us of how much we all have in common, whether we’re still at home or finally re-emerging in the world with the first bloom of spring.
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