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Three Stages of Amazement - Carol Edgarian
Crashing financial markets and the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme serve as the backdrop to Carol Edgarian’s Three Stages of Amazement (Scribner, $16)—and also as a mirror for one family’s own series of...
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The Submission - Amy Waldman
For its sharp, vivid portrait of contemporary America, The Submission (Picador, $15) would have been my pick for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Amy Waldman opens with an elite jury voting on New...
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This Beautiful Life - Helen Schulman
It’s every parent’s nightmare: one impulsive move by an otherwise good kid—in this case the forwarding of a sexually explicit video—throws a family into crisis and exposes every fault line in a...
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When The Killing's Done - T.C. Boyle
The history of the Northern Channel Islands off California is one of storms, shipwrecks, and invasive species wreaking havoc with the islands’ closed ecosystem. When The Killing’s Done (Penguin, $16),...
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Mohsin Hamid
The protagonist in this fictional “self-help” book searches for wealth and love in an unnamed Asian country (closely resembling Pakistan), straddling the region’s old habits and new aspirations. It is...
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