Recommended Reads For May 23

“‘The Old Drift’” by Namwali Serpell is a multi-generational exploration of Zambia’s past into its technically advanced future. As Salman Rushdie wrote, ‘Serpell’s extraordinary, ambitious, evocative first novel … contributes powerfully to a new wave of female authors in African Literature.’”—Carolyn, BookHampton

“In ‘Montauk’ by Nicola Harrison, Beatrice Bordeaux, the lonely wife of a real estate developer is thrust into the glitzy life of charity events and privilege. Her new reality is nothing like her modest background and she is a woman torn between the life she chose and the life she desires. The question I always ask myself is ‘what if?’ I did live my life the way it was intended, instead of through expectations. This is the question that ‘Montauk’ reminds me to ask myself.”—Jane, Bedside Reading (also available in audiobook)


“‘My Antonia’” by Willa Cather. Maybe it’s the English teacher in me that wants to suggest we should all read one classic over the summer. In Cather’s masterwork, a sweeping portrait of life on the great plains of Nebraska where landscape lives and breathes as much a character as the narrator Jim Burden and his beloved friend the irrepressible Antonia.”—Maryann, Canio’s Books


“‘Roy Lichtenstein: The Impossible Collection.’ Edited by Avis Berman, this is the ultimate collection featuring 100 of Roy Lichtenstein’s most iconic works. Hand bound double folio in a pictorial clamshell case.”—Greg, Southampton Books

“If you still have a ‘book hangover’ from Jill Santopolo’s ‘The Light We Lost,’ pick up Tracy Garvis Graves’ ‘The Girl He Used To Know.’ Smart and sensitive, these characters-to-root-for will have you laughing and crying and wanting more. A very well written ‘beach read’!”—Taylor Rose Berry, Berry & Co.