Best New Books to Read: June 2015 Releases
Looking for a good book to read? Here are six great new books coming in June 2015.
The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida’s protagonist has her wallet and passport stolen while in Casablanca. She accepts a job as a stand-in for a famous movie star and, strangely free from her own identity, finds herself being reeled deeper into the identity of the film star, both on and off the set. (Ecco)
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
Four friends in present-day Paris — Alain, Ramon, Charles, and Caliban — spend their hours talking and debating about sex, history, art, politics, and the meaning of life. The first novel in a decade from the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being takes a humorous approach to serious matters. (Harper)
Love May Fail by Matthew Quick
The author of The Silver Linings Playbook spins a story about a woman who leaves her pornographer husband in Florida to return home to New Jersey where, with the help of a number of colorful characters, she sets out to save a beloved high school English teacher who has retired after a shocking incident. (Harper)
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
We love Etgar Keret’s splendid short stories, so how can we resist a memoir covering the time between the birth of Keret’s son to the death of his father, seven years during which the author examines life, love and grief with his surrealist’s eye. (Riverhead)
The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert
Marie and Simone, immigrants to New York after World War II, are now widows living in Chelsea and taking a painting class together. Through their relationships with an art historian named Helen and their painting instructor, Sid (among others), Walbert explores themes of disconnect between our inner longings and our external experiences. (Scribner)
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall, author of The Electric Michelangelo, returns with the story of a British zoologist working in Idaho when she is called back to England by the Earl of Annerdale, who has an outlandish plan to return wolves to England. (Harper)
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