In this sequel to Miller’s Out of Patients (2022), Dr. Norah Waters, approaching her 65th birthday, is planning to officially announce her impending retirement, which is scheduled to commence at the close of the year. The stress of caring for and worrying about patients has become exhausting. For the past five years, she’s been in …
Jansi—an attorney, epidemiologist, wife, daughter, and mother of two—is a South Asian woman “swimming against a relentless current.” Caught between her demanding career, aging father, hypercritical mother, two teenage sons, and a hollow marriage, Jansi finds each day passing in a blur of anxiety. She barely even has a moment to look inward—not that she …
Told through the eyes of an adult reflecting on lessons learned with a childhood dog, this sweet picture book by Santos follows a youngster who spots two puppies at a Sunday market—one pristine, one flea-ridden—and is steered by Mom toward the bedraggled choice. That dog, Luna, becomes the youngster’s teacher for life as she quietly …
“I’m jealous of those who believe in a God,” writes Gupta, adding, “I’m also jealous of atheists.” Whether one is religiously “ensconced in the security of a benevolent God” or liberated from spirituality in a way that allows one to be “free to enjoy life in the moment,” the author appreciates the certainty that comes …
Set in 2045, the story follows firefighter Miro Jackson, a member of Australia’s elite Predict, Prevent, and Control Unit, which uses a technology called MindLink to anticipate and prevent disasters before they occur. When the Delroy family dies in a suspicious house fire, Miro, informed by his former career in the New South Wales Police …
The Glory Peak Ski Resort is founded in 1966 by Bill Macklemore, a World War II veteran–turned–ski instructor who developed a site near Fortooth into a premier skiing destination (it is said that “Fortooth was one of those towns where reality was far more potent than myth”). His devotion to his business is so all-encompassing …
What does it mean for the world to end? Spanish author Levi’s novel takes up that question both literally and figuratively. Largely structured as 19-year-old narrator Little Lea’s tale of her life, which she’s recounting to a man in search of his lost dog, this novel reckons with the appeal and dangers of home. “I …
