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Top Picks for Book Club & Beyond

- KRISTYN KUSEK LEWIS,Christopher Testani

Dramatic Coming-of-Age Novel

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley opens with a confession: Tween Georgie Ayyar and her older sister, Agatha Krishna, have killed their uncle, who’d recently arrived from India to live with their family in rural Wyoming and begun sexually abusing them. He’s clearly a villain, but the ones truly to blame in the whole vicious story, Georgie recounts, are the British. Set in the late 1980s and exploring the impacts of colonization and immigration, this fierce portrait of sisterhood is ultimately a life-affirming tale.

Memoir of a Marriage

In the spring of 2020,