The impulse to write-and read avidly-has always been with him, and after giving up a young man's dream of being a basketball player, he turned to writing. He lives in Brooklyn and directs the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College. Joshua Henkin is the author of Swimming Across the Hudson, a Los Angeles Times Notable Book, and Matrimony, a New York Times Notable Book his stories have been published widely. Marilyn Dahl, reviews editor, Shelf Awareness This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz (Riverhead, September 11) Stories about how love ends.
And then one afternoon, a stranger knocks on a door. NW by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press, September 4) The lives of four Londoners, all from the same city housing estate, who have made it out with varying degrees of success. His life is touched by the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants, whom he saves, and an escaped slave who nurses him back to life. An old and ailing man, he must undertake an heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. Wilderness by Lance Weller (Bloomsbury USA, September 4) Thirty years after the Civil War, Abel Truman has found his way to the rugged, majestic coast of Washington State, where he lives alone in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog. Tropper is always hilarious, always heartbreaking. One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper (Dutton, August 21) Drew Silver's ex-wife is getting married, his teenage daughter is pregnant, and he needs lifesaving heart surgery, but decides to forgo it in favor of repairing relationships and becoming a better man. Talmadge lives a lonely, ordered life but opens his heart, letting in the world with all its love, violence, beauty and tragedy. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin (HarperCollins, August 21) At the turn of the 20th century, in the foothills of the Cascades, an orchard caretaker finds himself also caring for two very young and pregnant teens.
A never-ending trend is fabulous fiction there's so much to write about, it will take several columns (with a few late August titles we just had to add). Last week in writing about the annual BookExpo America, I mentioned discovering trends for the fall.
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