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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2021

The 2021 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Damon Galgut for THE PROMISE. Set in South Africa during the country’s transition out of apartheid, the book explores the interconnected relationships between the members of a diminishing white family through the sequential lens of four funerals. THE PROMISE is Galgut’s ninth novel and first in seven years; his debut was published when he was just 17. Click here to read more about Galgut and his modern family saga.

Week of April 18, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of April 18th include THE PAPER PALACE by Miranda Cowley Heller, a story of summer, secrets, love and lies, in which one woman --- over the course of a singular day on Cape Cod --- must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades; FALSE WITNESS, a stand-alone thriller from Karin Slaughter that introduces readers to an up-and-coming defense attorney who has worked hard to put her nightmarish childhood behind her --- but now her devastating past is starting to catch up to her, and time is running out; Nancy Thayer's FAMILY REUNION, a magicial, multigenerational novel about a longtime Nantucket resident who is trying to make the best of a lonely summer, and her spirited granddaughter who is learning what she wants out of life; and Rachel Cusk's electrifying novel, SECOND PLACE, a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives.