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Tracing what the paper industry did to an area of Maine in ‘Mill Town’
What began as an endeavor by Kerri Arsenault to piece together her family tree grew into a decade-long examination of pollution, poverty, and disease.
BOOKS
Faith and fury in ‘Transcendent Kingdom’
Yaa Gyasi’s profoundly moving second novel takes place in the vast, fragile landscape where the mysteries of God and the certainties of science collide. Through deliberate and precise prose, the book becomes an expansive meditation on grief, religion, and family.
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In Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Lying Life of Adults,’ new territory to explore
But is this picaresque of adolescence set in Naples as good as her Neapolitan Quartet?
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BIBLIOPHILES
Margaret Atwood on thrillers, classics, and free speech
Amid the profound weirdness of life during a pandemic, the Canadian author's fictional visions of the future begin to feel like comfort reads.
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BOOKS
An imperfect union
For months following the May 25 killing of George Floyd, Americans have turned out in the streets, breathing new life into the Black Lives Matter movement. Strikingly, many have also turned inward. Week after week, books about race have crowded US bestseller lists. A plethora point to needed change.
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BOOKS
From a difficult childhood to business success in ‘The Growing Season’
The memoir looks at the life of Sarah Frey, a woman with a potent sense of self and an unmatched ability for inventing and selling herself in a business world often skeptical of or hostile to women, especially those without pedigree or connections.
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LOCAL BESTSELLERS
Local bestsellers for the week ending Aug. 23
Bestsellers based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.
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BOOKS
‘Punching the Air’ mines personal history for the story of a wrongfully imprisoned teen
Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam partnered on this young adult novel in verse.