SAY NOTHING: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe. (Anchor, 540 pp., $16.95.) One of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2019, this account of the decades-long political violence called the Troubles begins with the 1972 disappearance of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10 suspected by the I.R.A. of being an informer. In these pages, Roddy Doyle called Keefe “a terrific storyteller.”
FEAST YOUR EYES, by Myla Goldberg. (Scribner, 326 pp., $17.) Goldberg’s fourth novel follows the fortunes of Lillian Preston, a mid-20th-century photographer in the mold of Sally Mann and Diane Arbus, who is put on trial for obscenity after photographing her young daughter half dressed. “Goldberg’s passionate depiction of Lillian rings heartbreakingly true,” Joanna Rakoff wrote here.
THE CLUB: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch. (Yale, 473 pp., $20.) This group biography, one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2019, tells the story of the 18th-century writers, painters and thinkers who gathered weekly at London’s Turks Head Tavern for food, drink and intellectual stimulation. Our reviewer, Lyndall Gordon, said Damrosch “brilliantly brings together the members’ voices.”
GOOD RIDDANCE, by Elinor Lipman. (Mariner, 296 pp., $15.99.) Moving into a new apartment after a divorce, the protagonist of Lipman’s romantic caper discards an old yearbook full of snarky annotations from her dead mother, only to find a neighbor has found it and plans to make a documentary about it. In these pages, Mary Pols called the novel “light as a feather and effortlessly charming.”
UNEXAMPLED COURAGE: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodward and the Awakening of America, by Richard Gergel. (Picador, 324 pp., $18.) Gergel, a federal judge in South Carolina, excavates the story of an African-American soldier brutally beaten by a police chief in 1946, and the legal reverberations the case inspired. Our reviewer, David W. Blight, called it “engrossing history, animated by the stories of several key characters.”
BROTHER, by David Chariandy. (Bloomsbury, 179 pp., $16.) The ambitious narrator of Chariandy’s second novel, the son of Trinidadian immigrants living in a downtrodden housing complex outside Toronto, becomes caught in an endless cycle of grief after the murder of his brother. Our reviewer, Patrick Abatiell, noted the novel’s “robust material” and “poignancy.”
2020-02-21 10:00:00Z
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