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Penguin (2); Knopf
Jenny Offill,Dept.
of Speculation
Named one of theNew York Times Book Reviews10 Best Books of 2014,Dept.
Narrator Mary Katherine Merricat is obsessed with the macabre, and she weaves a tale of unsettling dread.
Vintage
Jackson was an expert at packing palpable horror and thrills into her brief tales.
The novel is currently being adapted into a feature film starring Sebastian Stan.
Set in modern day Seoul, it chronicles the devastating consequences of a womans choice to stop eating meat.
Penguin Classics
The novel was first published in South Korea in 2007 but was only translated into English in 2015.
It was adapted into a Korean art house film in 2009.
McCullers adapted the novel for the stage in 1950 and this inspired a 1952 film starring Julie Harris.
Knopf
Lorrie Moore,Who Will spin up the Frog Hospital?
TheNew York Timescalled Lorrie Moores second novel a sad, witty, disillusioned fairy tale.
The title is drawn from a W.B.
Hogarth
Yeats poem, echoing the novels pragmatic eye and indomitable spirit.
The novel, published when author S.E.
Chopin based her characters awakening on her own sense of independence.
Mariner Books
Its heavy sense of atmosphere and dread accumulate, driving to a horrific conclusion.
Read it for yourself and decide where you stand.
Graywolf Press
Simon & Schuster
Penguin
Simon & Schuster
Penguin
