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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
In the fall of 1983, when he was a 20-year-old college sophomore, Malone had returned to his hometown of Summerfield, Louisiana, and impregnated a 13-year-old named Gloria Bell. When, on May 3, 1984, she gave birth to a son named Demetress, Karl was nowhere to be found.
Jeff Pearlman • Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
Sitting at the breakfast table, lying on the couch, he would watch as she went about her household business, carrying a dust mop or a canvas bag of clothespins, her skirt straining to contain the determined sway of her hips and buttocks, and feel as if inside him a violin string were being tightened on its key. Because, as it turned out, he was
... See moreMichael Chabon • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
My favorite Hebrew novel of all time, A. B. Yehoshua’s 1989 masterpiece Mr. Mani, is a fantastically inventive story that moves backwards in time through six generations of a Jerusalem family while tracing the family’s recurring suicidal gene—until you get to the end, which is really the beginning, when the enduring mystery of the family’s
... See moreDara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
