Reading the imagination in 2021 was a disgusting task - to keep our attention away from the disasters that are playing around us to engage in a quiet, imaginative task.  And the best idea of ​​the year was for us to understand more and provide lots of ways for amana and meaningful escape.  With The Mirror and Light at Todd England's Turbulent Energy Hall, readers can find models of joy, thrill, stability with children's Bible ghost-filled castles or wild goddesses, ghost-ridden Japan readers.  And the sympathy and challenge that somehow made us more tolerant.


Breast and Eggs, Miko Kawakami

   In his first novel published in English, Japanese author Miko Kawakami follows three women and their relationship with their transformed bodies.  Natsu, 30, is his elder sister, Miko, and Miko's daughter, Midoriko.  The first half of Breast and Eggs, translated by Sam Bate and David Baid, refused to plan a plan for Miko's breast augmentation and spoke to Midorico.  Natsu's dry voice pauses in a scene full of ambiguous and clever dialogue in his dialogues.

  Then, Kawakami picked up after 10 years and carried the story forward and paid attention to Natsu, but noticing motherhood.  While Natsu has measured and perfected her image and is considering telling her sister's story of depression, she is now obsessed with uncertainty and her fears about old age.  In describing this idea, Kawakami takes an interesting look at women and the expectations of women.

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 1. Where there are wild women, Eko Matsuda

   Where there are wild women, Japanese writer Eko Matsuda guides readers through all-round events and introduces them to other worldly characters as if they were completely normal.  It is this decay and ingenuity that translates this short story collection into English by Paulie Burton.  

Matsuda updates the traditional Japanese ghost story for the contemporary era, gives the female voice to the agencies previously voiced, and breaks gender roles and stereotypes with the game and pervades Japanese culture even today.  As a translator, he knows how to play with the matsuda language, including his storytellers, with memorable idiocy.  While each chapter has its own short story, there are some internal links. The result is a re-imagining of the traditional story as part of a broader story about women and power.

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 2. Deacon King Kong, James McBride

   This happened in September 1969 when a local drug dealer shot an old Dacone Sportcoat from a church on the Brooklyn House Cuse House project.  The whole neighborhood is buzzing with the news: Sportcoat took the .38 out of his pocket and broke the ears of a boy training in baseball. 

Why on earth would he do this? 

 Even Dacone does not know himself, National Book Award-winning author James McBride reveals the answer to this comic and compassion story, which brings attention to various characters.  MacBride describes their world in place of dense packs, thematic nuances, the community's rich local history and voices.

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3. A Sizzling, Mega Mess

   Zeevan, a poor Muslim woman living in the slums of Kolkata after witnessing the terrorist attack, criticized her government's response to the tragedy in a comment on Facebook.  This is a terrible result, as he is arrested and accused of supporting and insulting the attackers. In his highly conspiratorial debut novel, Megha Majumdar wrote with solicitude describing the pair of lives.  Outside of life, Majumdar introduces two main points: Nayak's former gym teacher P.T.  Who can prove Zeevan's innocence As they move through his three voices, Majumdar reveals an unexplained investigation of corruption, class, and tragedy, revealing the intersections of his will and fear.

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4. I am holding a wolf in my ear, Laura Raa van den Berg

   The 11 stories that make up the beautiful and bold collection of Laura Ra One Den Berg are a feature of women who navigate in a strange, sad, and unsatisfactory situation.  Among them is the "Due Eiff Freelancer" who drives away the deceased and brings in additional income, the wife intentionally taking drugs with her husband's sedative speaker Seltzer, and the daughter who is taking the ailing mother to Italy.  The other is broken in different ways, but they all silently face life's best questions - solitude and loss, which means the stability of love.  I'm Caught by a Wolf, the shortest story of which: Van den Berg captures the brutality of trauma on one page, and then gives a relentless respite.

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5. Motherland Ellis, Ayad Akhtar

   Often we are given a novel gift that gives a deep mixture of deep intelligence, caring prose, and the state of our world.  Ayatollah Akhtar, winner of the Puljeet Award in Home Eligible, tells readers the story of a man like him who shared his name and was born to Pakistani immigrants in the American Midwest like Akhtar.  From the beginning of the chapter, when the father of the fictional Ayad treats Donald Trump to a heart attack in the 1990s, it is clear that we are in a world that is recognized but certainly not real.  This is a part of Akhtar: His project uses imagination as a filter, through which a man about the upheavals of American life and his family's servant self-determination after 9/11  Essentials tell the story.  It is a delicate balance between what is real and what is possible, yet the complexity of the American dream is not so naked in Akhtar's brilliant book.

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6. A Children's Bible, Lydia Millet

   Like many others, over the holidays, a group of families share a summer home on the beach, where parents pay no attention to what they do for their children.  When a tornado tears from the house, the adults prefer to ignore the chaos and instead go to the liquor cabinet and leave the children to take safety on their own.  In a thin and spontaneous novel, Kishore describes the group's struggle within the apocalypse level of EV destruction.  His thoughts on natural disasters, the illnesses of a parent and a youth capture the dual personality of a young man who is forced to grow up very fast.  Puljit Award finalist Lydia Millett's novel, which was a National Book Award finalist, is a two-venture adventure story reminiscent of both the classics and a tragic future story in the eyes of a very comfortable P generation with disaster  Has been told.

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 7. Mirrors and Lighting, Hilary Montel

   Very few novels were expected this year, such as The Mirror and the Light, British writer Hillary Montal's blockbuster and Wolf Lull Hall Trilochan's theory.  Modell's Tudor was expelled from England and his ears drenched in political drama, and the book lists bestsellers in the United States and the United Kingdom, with 900 pages of Amir Darpan and The Fall of Thomas the Light.  Cromwell, King Henry VIII and Counselor for Reform Power Brokers.  It is historically fictional, but it is dramatically literary in its ambitions and emphasis of its cutting and dialogue.  Montel Cromwell is a character for the ages - Rug-age is still baseless, sharp of mind-brain.  At this point, his Henry is a fitting reminder that self-pitying men with too much arrogance enjoyed power long ago.

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8. Sugi Bain, Douglas Stuart

   Douglas Stuart's famous novel in Glasgow became more popular in his upbringing in the 1st century, where Stuart, Hug "Shaggy" Bain grew up with an alcoholic mother and encountered a homophobic culture that made him feel like an outsider.  His father and two older siblings had left home long ago.  Against the backdrop of a neglected and shrinking city, Shugi and Agnes struggle to control their lives, often seeing themselves wandering with a wave of intoxication.  While the setting is lackluster, full of quiet rage details - Agnes calls her ex-husband's taxi company late at night, the day's beer-filled magazine-guiding the novel's boy's enduring love for his mother.  .  Stuart writes beautiful inner lives for both characters, Shaggy's sometimes devastating and lively glamorous mother and the pain of turning her into a hideous, unnatural stranger from drinking.  The novel, a National Book Award finalist and a Booker Prize winner, is a detective.

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10. Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett

   Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half lives outside reality, a place where a touch of imagination reflects the strangeness of reality.  In his second novel, Bennett Malar, La.  He invented the small Black Town, where residents pride themselves on light skin and grew up with the same twins Stella and Desi Wig in the 1950s and are also aware of racial violence and harassment.

  It seems almost inevitable, when, when the girls get a good chance and run away together - and Stella quickly decides, it's time to pass as hard, white first and foremost.  it's easy.  Suddenly, she departs leaving a devastating desire. Bennett weaves a level and satisfying storyline that changes from the point of view of multiple characters and the time to recognize the impact of the single decision on Stella, her family, and the next generation.  A statement of literature New Entry, Topics, Introduction, The Vanishing Half is this year's novel.