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The best (and worst) novels of 2021 so far
In this regularly updated guide, our critics review the best of the year s fiction – and suggest a few books to avoid
Eight of the best: this year s top novels
The Start-Up Wife by Tahmima Anam ★★★☆☆
Tahmima Anam is best known as the award-winning writer of three novels (A Golden Age, The Good Muslim and The Bones of Grace), and less well-known as the executive director of a music technology startup called ROLI. An experience no doubt plumbed for her latest book, The Startup Wife, a tech industry-set reverse romcom in which a young Bangladeshi-American woman creates a social media network that gets out of control.
New books available at the Havre-Hill County Library
Havre-Hill County Library Staff While our stacks are currently closed to the public, you can still check out books. Here are some of our newest titles.
New Fiction Thrillers and suspense novels are a great way to liven up a long winter. Here are some of our newest: “White Ivy” by Susie Yang. Ivy Lin grows up learning to lie and steal from her grandmother, allowing her to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen and, more importantly, attracting the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. Ivy’s mother discovers what her daughter has been up to, however, and Ivy is swiftly sent to China. Years later Ivy returns to Boston and is reunited with Gideon. What starts as a young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate, becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession. This thriller offers stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending.
Book World; The best new audiobooks: Tales of deception, suspense - and some history
Katherine A. Powers, The Washington Post
Jan. 8, 2021
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It s not surprising that Susie Yang s remarkable debut, a character study rich in plot twists and suspense is being developed into a Netflix series. At its center is Ivy Lin, a Becky Sharp or Lily Bart for the 21st century. Preoccupied with race and class, she is ashamed of her family with whom she emigrated from China to America when a child. Ivy grows up lacking a sense of identity she can live with, becoming a practiced liar and thief. She develops a middle-school crush on Gideon Speyer, son of a politician, and enters a relationship, alternately friendly and antagonistic, with another boy, Roux Roman, son of a kept woman. Years later, Gideon and Roux enter her life again. Rotating between determination and despondency, Ivy sees hope for an ideal life in Gideon and destruction of that hope in Roux. Narrato