Our reviewer, Mick Herron, found Purnell’s biography of the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines “as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.
(Penguin, 368 pp., $18.) After making a daring escape from the Nazis across the Pyrenees, despite having lost a leg, Virginia Hall returned to France to direct D-Day resistance operations. (Vintage, 320 pp., $16.) The nine narrators of this National Book Award-nominated novel about the hit-and-run death of an immigrant restaurant owner in “a post-9/11, post-Iraq-war America of declining productivity” all “see themselves as outsiders to mainstream American identity,” our reviewer, Madeleine Thien, wrote.Ī WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, by Sonia Purnell. “But what she found is a story from the 19th century that rumbles and resonates in our own.” Laila Lalami's new novel The Other Americans is told from the perspective of nine different narrators who have one thing in common: They've all 'had the experience of dislocation,' Lalami says. (Picador, 400 pp., $20.) Miller began working on this book about the young Madeline Pollard, who won a landmark “breach of promise to marry” suit against a much older congressman, years before the “reckonings of #MeToo,” our critic Jennifer Szalai observed.
(HarperPerennial, 464 pp., $16.99.) A mysterious voice on the red phone in his family’s secret escape room adds a dose of magical realism to the Australian journalist Dalton’s debut novel - a mix of romance, suspense, organized crime and humor that our reviewer, Amelia Lester, called “thrilling.”īRINGING DOWN THE COLONEL: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took on Washington, by Patricia Miller.
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