Featuring Sophie Mackintosh, Xochitl Gonzalex, Jayne Anne Phillips, and more

Sophie Mackintosh’s Permanence , Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism , and Jayne Anne Phillips Small Town Girls all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.

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Fiction

1. Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh

(Avid Reader Press)

5 Rave • 3 Positive • 1 Mixed

“[Mackintosh’s] terrain is complexity and contradiction, and in her hands these oppositions twist and turn in on themselves.”

–Katie Kitamura ( The New York Times Book Review )

2. Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez

(Flatiron)

5 Rave

“Gonzalez once again artfully delivers insightful, nuanced commentary of place, race, and class in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn.”

–Israt Abedin ( Library Journal )

3. No Way Home by T. C.…