This Week's Acquisitions
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter (Ecco, 2007). A family emigrates to America in order to evade capture by the Nazis, then tries to start over.
- Penelope Lively, Consequences (Viking, 2007). Romance from the WWII era onward.
- Richard Flanagan, Death of a River Guide (Atlantic Books, 2004). Drowning man remembers the twists and turns of his life.
- D. J. Taylor, Kept: A Victorian Mystery (HarperCollins, 2007). Neo-Victorian mystery about kidnapping, murder--the usual things that happen on country estates.
- Monica Ali, Brick Lane: A Novel (Scribner, 2004). A young Bangladeshi woman tries to survive London.