5/26/2023 0 Comments Exciting times by naoise dolan![]() ![]() THE SON OF GOOD FORTUNE, by Lysley Tenorio. Our reviewer, Stephanie Powell Watts, called it “an ambitious attempt to tell a story of despotism and terror, toxic masculinity and survival.” (Vintage, 304 pp., $16.) This debut novel is narrated from three perspectives: a Queens house on fire (its walls “talk, scheme and ultimately give in to an impulse to self-destruct”), its Haitian owner and a mysterious woman living in the basement. MY MOTHER’S HOUSE, by Francesca Momplaisir. (Ecco, 256 pp., $16.99.) “Jealousy and obsession, love and late capitalism, sex and the internet all come whirling together in a wry and bracing tale of class and privilege,” our reviewer, Xuan Juliana Wang, wrote of this novel about “Anglophone transplants” to Hong Kong who “work and party there” but “barely notice the Chinese characters on street signs.” ![]()
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