WHAT WE BOTH KNOW
by Fawn Parker
McClelland & Stewart, May 3
In Parker’s third novel, a celebrated writer slides into dementia while his daughter ghostwrites his memoir. The more the child learns of her father’s ugly secrets, the harder her choice—does she out him or preserve his reputation? In emotionally loaded but tightly controlled prose, Parker explores how keeping secrets can do more violence than revealing them.
LOVE MARRIAGE
by Monica Ali
Scribner, May 3
Ali returns to London’s South Asian community—the setting of her 2003 debut novel, Brick Lane—with the story of Yasmin, the daughter of immigrants, and Joe, the son of a wealthy feminist author. The union of their families seems destined to end in a multicultural clash, but it’s the interpersonal that turns the plot in…
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