Naomi Round brings you 5 different books to add to your reading list this summer!
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The author of ‘Station Eleven‘ brings you gripping visions of the global crisis that we are facing today. The story revolves around three-character. Vincent, her half brother Paul, and Leon Prevent who is an executive of a Shipping company. Vincent who used to work as a bartender at a five-star glass hotel went missing thirteen years later from a container ship in Mauritiana. The story moves from the ship at the coast of Mauritiana to Manhattan and then to Vancouver Island. Set in three different backdrops, the story blends fantasy and art portraying greed, delusions guilts, and ghosts of human pasts.
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Kate Elizabeth’s debut novel tells the painful story of an abusive relationship between a student and her teacher. The story explores psychological traumas and the labyrinth of teenage minds. Vanessa was 15 when Jacob Strain, her 42-year-old English teacher lured her into an unhealthy sexual relationship.
17 years later, Jacob is accused of assault another of his pupil. Venessa is yet to admit the unhealthy relationship she has been and fails to look into its devastating effect on her life. Dark and painful the story dwells with understanding manipulation and psychological abuse.
Weather by Jenny Offill
The author of the ‘Dept. of Speculation’ brings you a spectacular novel about family, politics, and the climate crisis in America. The story revolves around Lizzie Benson who is a librarian and a fake shrink. Sylvia Liller is a podcast star who hires Lizzie as her assistant to reply to her mails. Offill portrays a scary prospect of New York City, threatened by climate change and changed after 9/11.
The Mirror & the Light Thomas Cromwell Trilogy by Hilary Mantel
The final installment to the historical series charts the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell was the Minister at the court of King Henry VIII. The third installation of the trilogy dwells in the last four years of Cromwell’s life. The story opens with the death of Anne Boleyn. Mantel writes accounts on how Cromwell rises to wealth and power and the events that eventually lead to his public execution in 1540.
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
The author of the ‘American Wife‘ brings her sixth novel to reimagine the life of Hillary Clinton. Rodham is the third book of the fantasy series, the readers where Curtis explores the sublimations of ambitions that women sacrifice for the sake of their husband’s careers.
