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In Tongues, by By Thomas Grattan. | Booklist Online

In Tongues, by By Thomas Grattan. | Booklist Online
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17 incredible and inspiring LGBT+ novels that have been released in 2021 so far

If you're looking for your next read, then what could possibly better than a new, undiscovered LGBT+ novel?

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One Novel. Three Generations. All of Life's Challenges and Joys.


One Novel. Three Generations. All of Life’s Challenges and Joys.
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By Patrick Nathan
By Thomas Grattan
It’s a unique, if common, cruelty to transplant a child who is just putting down roots. For those pulled and relocated, there’s a thirstiness — and a little guarded ring of bark — that those with stable childhoods lack. In “The Recent East,” a wonderful, immersive debut novel from the writer and teacher Thomas Grattan, we’re given an intimate look at these wood cuttings, as seen through three generations of one family, each moved across an ocean just before blooming.

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5 books to read in March 2021: Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Abdurraqib, and more


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As moving as it is riveting, Patricia Engel’s
Infinite Country is a one-of-a-kind telling of the timeless story of migration. The era-leaping novel combines international history—the Colombian Conflict, the introduction of the DREAM Act—with the personal stories of a family whose bond cannot be broken by geography. A late-night dash for freedom in the opening chapter is just the start of a border-crossing relay race that spans the Western Hemisphere. Engel’s pacing is breathless—she covers three generations in under 200 pages—but just as frequently gives way to heart- and time-stopping moments.
Infinite Country is poised to be one of the most stirring page-turners of the year.

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Thomas Grattan on Writing a Joyful Queer Protagonist


Well-Versed, FSG/MCD associate editor Jackson Howard talks with Thomas Grattan about his new book,
The Recent East, which follows a mother and two teens as they navigate a new life in East Germany.
From the episode:
Jackson Howard: You and I talked about this when I bought the book, but it’s important to me as a queer guy to publish different types of queer stories that aren’t the kind of traditional coming out story that we’ve been served so many times that is just full of pain and abuse and violence, and that’s like one individual fighting against a horrible world. I mean, that is true for a lot of people, in fiction and in real life, but I guess I had read enough masochistic coming out stories to not want that. Michael, who’s arguably the main character—or one of the main characters of your book—his coming out story is at once very universal, but it’s also very specific to his quirks and also the circumstances of his time and of his family and of where he is in the world.

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New voices and stories help balance the books


New voices and stories help balance the books
Independent.ie
10/01/2021
Emily Hourican
The pandemic has been, broadly speaking, good for books, in that reading is a vital survival tool for many of us. Books aren't hard to buy online - no faffing with sizes or colours - they are relatively cheap, and usually quickly delivered (kudos to the amazing Irish bookshops that do this so efficiently).
However, the pandemic has not been equally good to all books, favouring established and big-name writers over the new and emerging. When buying online, readers tend to stick with what they know - or rely on algorithms that 'predict' what they'll like, based on previous purchases (I say nuts to these algorithms; they fail to take account of my broad and eclectic taste. Just because I love John le Carré does not mean I want an endless list of spy thrillers…). When buying online, readers do not browse, or chat to those wonderful ambassadors for books - booksellers.

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