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3 Novels that Will Make You Stay Up Reading Them
For those days when you just need to get absorbed in another world
May We Be Forgiven — A. M. Homes
I can’t even remember how I came across this but I was so utterly absorbed from the second page that I cancelled my plans. A. M. Homes seems to write stories without stopping for breath. There’s more goings on in the first chapter of this novel than there are in the entirety of others.
May We Be Forgiven is a relentlessly genius black comedy. It starts as it means to go on, full-on intense. It follows the story of a suburban family at Thanksgiving who spiral out of control in an unstoppable, insane fashion.
It’s probably the least predictable book I’ve ever read and it’ll pick you up and dump you down, hours later, with no idea what just hit you.
Hope; a Tragedy — Shalom Auslander
When the proof of this book first found its way into the staff room of the bookshop I worked at, I’m not even sure I knew that such writing was possible. Now I know better.
