4 Books Coming in March
A haunting horror novel set a century ago in the American West, Eleanor Catton’s first novel in a decade, a Ukrainian war diary and much more.
Biography of X, by Catherine Lacey
After her wife, X — a controversial interdisciplinary artist — dies, a former reporter sets out to write her biography. X was always circumspect about the details of her life and she harmed even those closest to her. As she writes, her widow encounters information that turns everything she knew about the woman she loved on its head. The resulting book is a novel masquerading as a fictionalized biography and painful emotional inquiry.
Birnam Wood, by Eleanor Catton
Catton returns with her first novel in 10 years, after her debut, “The Luminaries,” won the Booker Prize. In New Zealand, Mira runs Birnam Wood, a “guerrilla gardening group” that plants food and flowers on land where they think no one will notice — their way of cultivating sustenance outside a capitalist system. When Mira makes a pact with a tech billionaire to secure the group’s future, it sets the groundwork for a collision of values. Read More..
