Recommended Reads for Indie Bookstore Day

From: Penguin Random House - Saturday Apr 30,2022 02:18 pm

Turn to the book experts for what to read next.

We asked indie booksellers about what they're reading and recommending for Indie Bookstore Day. Discover new favorites landing on your local shop's shelves this month!

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What on the surface seems like a moon colony, futuristic sci-fi novel turns out to be a story of love, family, and the ripple effect that every choice has. Superb.

Maggie Henriksen, Carmichael's Bookstore

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Sea of Tranquility

By Emily St. John Mandel

The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon 500 years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.

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Ocean conveys the honest truth of personal loss with intimate detail. He teaches us how to survive the unthinkable while remaining soft. Vuong's prose is achingly beautiful, each word loaded with emotion.

DeRosia Roskelley, Lemuria Books

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Time Is a Mother

By Ocean Vuong

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.

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This multi-generational, non-linear family epic is completely mesmerizing. Be prepared to become very attached to the women in this family.

Audrey Huang, Belmont Books

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Memphis

By Tara M. Stringfellow

A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy.

Unfolding over 70 years through a chorus of unforgettable voices that move back and forth in time, Memphis paints an indelible portrait of inheritance, celebrating the full complexity of what we pass down, in a family and as a country: brutality and justice, faith and forgiveness, sacrifice and love.

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