A Novel
by Linda Holmes
Recommended by Shauna Niequist
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Romance, and Fiction.
In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former majorleague pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw st...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Romance, and Fiction.
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Shauna Niequist
“Good morning?sending love & prayers & another booklist from our little quarantine corner to yours. What recent fiction have you loved (FYI: the next couple lists are memoir, food writing, faith writing, & books about writing/creativity...what other categories should we do)”
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Consider Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Recommended by 7 sources.
“Murakami's prose inhabits Toru’s quiet, inward voice, moving through campus rooms and memory with spare, melancholic detail. The most useful part is how small domestic moments and steady first-person narration make loneliness and mourning feel tactile and slow-burning. The main limitation is repetition: long stretches of interior monologue and muted melancholy can stagnate the middle, testing patience. Readers who want plot momentum or emotional variety will find the tone indulgent, while those receptive to lingering mood will be rewarded.”
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