Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2017

Buzz Books: Fall/Winter 2017

By Publishers Lunch from NetGalley

Exclusive excepts from 40 books yet to be published

These Buzz Books are such a wonderful teaser to Books you want to add to your TBR bookshelf. Just enough of an excerpt to grab your interest. 

Here are some of the books I found interesting. The books are arranged under their genre as they are in the book.

Biographies/Memoirs 

We Are Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union (November 2017). A touching look into the life of a person who will achieve fame and success. It's a reminder that not all celebrities are born but raised with determination to overcome the hardest obstacles. 

Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan

The author provides a thoughtful reflection on her life as a writer. Originally focusing on her artistic talents, she realizes it does not provide "an unexpected reckoning of my soul." She describes her Chinese American heritage and its influence on her writing. An eloquently written memoir by a memorable author.

Fiction

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 

(2018) 

Varya is the oldest of the four Gold children in 1969. She is 13 years old when she takes her siblings to seek advice from a "rishika" or seer about their future. 

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich 

(November 2017)

The author of The Round House, writes another touching novel about the struggles of a young pregnant woman. Four months pregnant, Cedar Hawk Songmaker is desperate to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe American Indian living on the reservation. 

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

(September 2017)

The Richardson family watch as firefighters extinguish the fire engulfing their home. Everyone was accounted for except for the youngest daughter, Izzy. Who was responsible for setting the fires? Was it Izzy who was rumored to be a "lunatic" or were they overlooking the timely departure of renters who left that morning?