Fiction comes in so many flavors, it's impossible to pick just one! Here are a few that are on the menu next month!
The Female Persuasion, by Meg Wolitzer. This much anticipated new novel from the best-selling author of titles like The Uncoupling and The Interestings (a personal favorite) is a story of power, ambition, friendship and the ideals we follow deep into adulthood. Greer is a shy college freshman when she meets charismatic Faith Frank, older, wiser, a pillar of the women's movement for decades. Greer, while madly in love with her boyfriend, is filled with an unfocused ambition that makes her restless, and it finds its purpose when she hears Faith speak for the first time. Faith invites Greer to make something of her purpose, leading her down a road much different than where Greer might have been headed otherwise. For readers who enjoy their fiction charming, witty and wise, Wolitzer is always a good choice.
Varina, by Charles Frazier. New historical fiction from the best-selling author of Cold Mountain. Returning to the time and place of Cold Mountain, Frazier follows the story of Varina Howell who, as a teenager with limited marriage prospects, agrees to marry the much older Jefferson Davis. While she enters the union expecting a comfortable life as the wife of a Mississippi landowner, instead Davis pursues a career in politics, ultimately appointed president of the Confederacy. Varina finds herself in the very center of one of the darkest times in American history, managing to escape Richmond with her children as the Confederacy falls, a bounty on their heads by association. If you like your fiction historical, epic, and riveting, add this to your reading list.
What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw, by Leah Stewart. Latest from the author of The Myth of You and Me and The History of Us, What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw is a thoughtful novel about the price of fame. Struggling with his newfound stardom, actor Charlie flees to a remote island in search of anonymity and a chance to reevaluate his collapsing relationship to actress Josie Lamar. Soon after his arrival, however, a solitary hike into the jungle takes him from anonymity to real danger. At the same time, Josie struggles with the fading of her own stardom. In the twenty years since her starring role in a cult TV show, Josie has never found another role to match the one that made her a household name. In anticipation of a full cast reunion at a huge convention, Josie thinks she will be fine if she can get a new part and a new boyfriend. What may make her famous, however, is everything she thinks she can replace, including Charlie. If you love fiction with untraditional love stories and a damsel who saves herself, and the day, this is one for you.
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