Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel, “The Water Dancer,” is the story of a slave’s external and internal journey the author has called the work a “myth” to counteract the racist beliefs of the present, explaining during last spring’s booksellers convention that fiction can change minds by taking us to a “bone-deep level.” New fiction also will come from Ann Patchett (“The Dutch House”), Stephen King (“The Institute”) and Zadie Smith (“Grand Union”) and Monique Truong (“The Sweetest Fruits”). I think we’ve collectively decided our comfort is more important than someone else’s discomfort, and putting people in someone else’s shoes for a bit seems a good way to counter that.” “Journalism is incredibly important, and data is great at making people angry, but a story sits with you the way data doesn’t,” Hart says. Rob Hart sets his thriller “The Warehouse” within a giant tech company called “The Cloud,” a story billed as “Big Brother meets Big Business.” Jeanine Cummins’ highly anticipated “American Dirt” tells of a bookseller in Mexico who is threatened by a drug cartel and attempts to flee to the United States. “Ducks, Newburyport” is a 1,000-page journey through the worried mind of an Ohio housewife who makes pies and despairs about Trump. Atwood has said the rise of Donald Trump helped convince her to write “The Testaments,” which returns readers to the ruthless patriarchy of Gilead and to those resisting it.
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