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New Relax & Read Books
August 13, 2007
Sit down with a winner from the Relax and Read collection.
2006 Man-Booker Award For Fiction
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Desai crafts the story of a retired judge who is caring for his orphaned granddaughter during the upheaval of India's push for independence. A well told story of exile, post-colonialism and the human quest for a better life.
2007 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This is the story of a father's love. Not the usual center of McCarthy's work, but brilliantly executed here as a father struggles to keep his young son alive in a dying post-apocalyptic world.
2007 Pulitzer Prize For Non-Fiction
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Wright's focus is not so much the events as it is the people involved and aware. He conducted over 500 interviews of a wide swath of perspectives to assemble his work.
2007 Edger (Allen Poe) Award For Best Mystery Novel
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
Goodman is well versed in Ottoman history, having written successful non-fiction accounts of it. This is his first foray into fiction, where he assigns eunuch Investigator Yashim to solve a string of nasty murders.
2006 National Book Award For Fiction
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
When Mark awakes from a coma brought on by a head injury, he suffers through a condition that does not allow him to recognize people for who they are. He thinks his devoted sister Karin is a spy.
2007 WLA Banta Award For Wisconsin Author
Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry
There are actually two love stories within this book. One involves Perry and the old truck he is restoring, and the other involves Perry and the woman who might restore him. Another delightful read from the author of Population: 485.
2006 Pen/Hemingway Award For Fiction
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain
A rich collection of stories that have the theme of Americans visiting third world countries. In most cases the characters are uncomfortable with the hardships that exist outside the U.S., in all cases the writing is either ironic or hilarious.
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