What Fiction are you reading this week, September 22, 2024?

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4. Eclectic week:

Telephone/Percival Everett

Finely crafted, many layered. Almost a prose poem. Young daughter diagnosed with rare deadly genetic disorder. Side trips: Paris. Caves and fossils. Saving enslaved migrants.

Notes on an Execution/Danya Kukafka

Serial killer on death row and the lives of the women who collided with him. Very dark. Also women being obtuse, making really bad choices.

Well written but I read by flipping through it. Too annoyed by all the characters.

Happiness Falls/Angie Kim

Big book. Intense family drama after dad goes missing. Breathless narration with lots of diversions by 20something who sounds about 12.

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The most moving true story this week was about a group of gifted Palestinian teens on an exchange program to learn about America. And then October happens.

Stranded. Bewildered. Terrified as their families and friends are killed on air. Their homes and schools destroyed. Hour long program. This American Life.