![]() ![]() ![]() Our Group Text columnist, Elisabeth Egan, called it “a puzzle wrapped in beautiful language,” raising tantalizingly important questions.įRIENDS AND STRANGERS, by J. (Riverhead, 256 pp., $17.) Set in a small Nigerian town, this “dazzling, devastating story of coming-of-age and coming out” explores whether the blindness of a young man’s family to his gender identity led to his death. ![]() THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI, by Akwaeke Emezi. His elegies, about the particular wound inflicted by 9/11 on American Muslims who had felt they were “at home,” are “sung,” as our reviewer, Hari Kunzru, put it, for a lost Whitmanesque dream combining selfhood and “national belonging.” (Back Bay, 368 pp., $16.99.) Like Akhtar, the narrator of this “moving and confrontational” novel - one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2020 - is a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist. “It might not cover everything, but it both cools and warms, lofts and lulls, settling gradually on its inhabitant with an ethereal solidity.” (Grove, 192 pp., $16.) Harvey’s memoir of her 2016 insomnia is “like a small and well-worn eiderdown quilt,” our reviewer, Alexandra Jacobs, wrote. THE SHAPELESS UNEASE: A Year of Not Sleeping, by Samantha Harvey. ![]()
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