"One of America's greatest living fiction writers returns with his first novel since 2018's Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize. In Vigil, the dying CEO of an oil company gets the Scrooge treatment when the ghost of a woman returns from the afterlife to help him cross over. If that sounds similar to Lincoln in the Bardo, don't be fooledthis one hits different. Despite its shorter length, Vigil is an equally powerful exploration of memory, compassion, and atonement."
"Now 61 years old, the Mexican novelist and memoirist Cristina Rivera Garza remains one of the most innovative and fascinating writers in the Western Hemisphere. Her latest, Autobiography of Cotton, is a stunning work of autofiction based on her grandparents' journey to the cotton fields along the US-Mexico border. Originally published in Spanish in 2020, this new translation from Christina MacSweeney is silky smooth."
Vigil follows a dying oil-company CEO visited by the ghost of a woman who seeks to help him cross over, offering a compact but powerful study of memory, compassion, and atonement that diverges from Lincoln in the Bardo. Cristina Rivera Garza, at 61, delivers Autobiography of Cotton, an autofiction tracing her grandparents' journey to US-Mexico cotton fields, rendered in a smooth translation by Christina MacSweeney. Namwali Serpell teaches and examines Toni Morrison's work at Harvard with clarity. Tayari Jones returns with Kin about a tested lifelong friendship, and T Kira Madden offers a tense debut thriller set near Seattle.
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