Fall Fiction

The New Voices of Fiction

September 14, 2011

***UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed

Oh hey book lovers…how's it going? You know that feeling you get when you discover a new author? It's like kittens and hot chocolate wrapped up in a down comforter…no? just me?

Anyway, here is the chance to discover 10 new talents! We have some amazing debut novels coming out in the coming months, and we want you to FALL (get it? Cause it's autumn…yeaaaah) in love with them.

To facilitate the love, I am giving away Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz to the first 15 people who email me their fave debut novel.

– Annie

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Books, Boston, Daphne Kalotay, Russian Winter

Russian Winter

July 19, 2010

In my humble opinion…if you're going to read one fiction title from our Fall 2010 list, Russian Winter is the book. Really. After finishing it a few weeks ago, I've wandered around aimlessly, through Charlotte Bronte's Villette and some non-fiction titles–unfortunately, nothing can compete with the transformative, enveloping power of Daphne Kalotay's debut novel. Russian Winter tells the story of Nina Revskaya, an aging ballerina who is auctioning off her jewelry in modern-day Boston. Divided by skillfully-placed auction cards, Russian Winter swerves deftly between Boston and Moscow, evoking the beauty of the Bolshoi and the terror of life under Stalin. The novel is literary but wonderfully accessible–out of everything on our Fall list, this is a book I can wholeheartedly recommend to most of my friends, even with their very diverse tastes in fiction. For more information on Russian Winter, check out my presentation of the title from ALA last month. Happy reading!

-Kayleigh