Book Reviews

Selection Day

Cricket And Difficult Choices In 'Selection Day'

by Annalisa Quinn

Aravind Adiga's new novel centers on Manju, a boy from Mumbai, and his tyrannical father, who wants just one thing: To raise the world's best cricketers. But what does Manju want for himself?
History of Wolves

Beautiful, Icy 'History Of Wolves' Transcends Genre

by Michael Schaub

Emily Fridlund's electrifying debut novel History of Wolves is a contemporary coming-of-age story about a young woman — but it avoids the familiar story arc so common to other novels in that genre.
Even Odds, by Elia Winters

Women Who Count: 3 Smart STEM Romances

by Maya Rodale

A new wave of romance novels features brainy heroines in science, technology, engineering and math — and the prejudices and obstacles they face on their way to a satisfying happy-ever-after.
We Told You So

They Told Us So: Fantagraphics Turns 40

by Etelka Lehoczky

Fantagraphics is the publisher that brought literary respectability to comics. Their mammoth 40th anniversary volume, We Told You So, tends towards self-congratulation — but deservedly so.