Vogue’s selection of must reads for July is a treat for those of you suffering from wanderlust. Locations include: Alaska, New York, Ireland, Libya and a small coastal village.
Heroes of the Frontier
by Dave Eggers (The Circle, A Hologram for the King)
“…In his appealingly humble latest, HEROES OF THE FRONTIER, even a single mother’s Pinot Noir-fueled Alaska road trip with her two kids–eluding wildfires, a lawsuit, and a failed-to-bloom ex –take on the quality of a heroic journey.”–Vogue
Still Here
by Laura Vapnar
“This certain kind of New York immigrants afterlife is the subject of Lara Vapnar’s STILL HERE, in which for Russians raised on Leonard Cohen and Mandelstam contend with digital age romance in their own mortality.”–Vogue
This Must Be the Place
by Maggie O’Farrell
“An American professor in Ireland with a reclusive film-star wife travels back to his own less glamorous past in Maggie O’Farrell’s haywire but heartfelt new novel, this must be the place.”–Vogue
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
by Hisham Matar
Few trips could be as emotionally freighted as the one taken by Lybian novelist he Hisham Matar in his thriller–like memoir, THE RETURN: FATHERS, SONS AND THE LAND IN BETWEEN, about the authors’ post-Qaddafi search for his dissident father-and Matar’s own deeply ambivalent sense of homecoming.”
Pond
by Claire-Louise Bennett
Meanwhile, Claire-Louise Bennett’s gorgeous debut, POND, captures an entirely different kind of journey, one in which an abandoned academic career, a cottage in the countryside, in the secret garden give rise to the kind of solitary noticing–‘the Savage swarming magic’–that enchants to the final page.”–Vogue
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