NPR Staffers Pick Their Favorite Fiction Reads of 2024
Briefly

This combination of almost unbearable intimacy and arm's-length anthropology has an explanation of sorts. But more importantly, it serves both to add considerable humor to the text (what would a robot think of human frailty, after all?) and to render Coral's situation more confusing, more disorienting. It's a sad story, but it's also a ride, and that's a tough combination. - Linda Holmes, host, 'Pop Culture Happy Hour'
The twists and revelations that follow aren't exactly jaw-dropping, but are emotionally wrenching enough to clear out the old tear ducts without leaving a grief hangover. - Holly J. Morris, digital trainer
If you like language, literature - and fungi - this wild ride of a very esoteric mystery is for you. - Elissa Nadworny, correspondent
Vinson Cunningham worked on the 2008 Obama campaign, so it's no surprise that this coming-of-age story follows a young man working on a thinly (very thinly) veiled version of that very unde
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