What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Book Marks logo Kelly Link’s The Book of Love , Calvin Trillin’s The Lede , Diane Oliver’s Neighbors and Other Stories, and Ed Zwick’s Hits, Flops and Other Illusions all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks , Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Fiction Kelly Link_The Book of Love Cover 1. The Book of Love by Kelly Link (Random House) 6 Rave • 3 Positive • 3 Mixed “Delivers plenty of…trademark dream logic while also making full use of the longer form to simmer characters, relationships and setting to the point of profound tenderness … An intriguing cast of characters who each nurse their own tangles of kinship and loss … A refreshing celebration of the special alchemies that animate human connection of all kinds.” –Chelsea Davis ( The San Francisco Chronicle ) Neighbors and Other Stories Cover 2. Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver (Grove Press) 5 Rave • 1 Positive Read a story from Neighbors and Other Stories here “…extraordinary … The author’s heartfelt and resplendent writing is loaded with an earthy complexity reminiscent of Zora Neale Hurston—indeed, novelist Tayari Jones names Oliver along with Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ann Petry as ‘literary foremothers’ in her introduction. Oliver’s brilliant stories belong in the American canon.” –Publishers Weekly Leaving cover 3. Leaving by Roxana Robinson (W. W. Norton & Company) 4 Rave • 1 Mixed “Roxana Robinson’s stunning new novel, Leaving , cost me some sleep, and continues to reverberate. A study of the complex joy and pain of late-life love, it is a tour de force and arguably her finest work yet … even if their wealth feels at times off-putting, Robinson’s writing—unfailingly clear-eyed, packed with psychological insights—compels readers to care passionately about them. Because of that, the novel’s pressure steadily bears down; Robinson has sown in just enough occlusion and uncertainty that its final impact shatters—and the aftershocks abide. Leaving stands as a wondrous feat, at once a cautionary tale, cutaway reveal and pageant. I can’t forget it.” –Joan Frank ( The Washington Post ) […]

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