Page 10 - TOLUNA NEWSPAPER IE MARCH_Neat
P. 10
BOOKS
We have selected some of the most
exciting new titles to help you find your
next great read.
A LONG WAY FROM HOME
by PETER CAREY
Until now, the double Booker prize-winning
Peter Carey has, in his own words, "avoided
a direct confrontation with race, and the
question of what it might mean to be a AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
white Australian." In his new novel, Carey by TAYARI JONES
returns to the remote country towns of his
childhood—and unrelenting expanses of Many couples have a safe word to call time-out
land in-between—to address this fraught from rough sex or to stop a conversation from
history head-on. going into that too hurtful place. For happily
married Celestial and Roy, it is two words:
When husband and wife, Titch and Irene “November 17,” the anniversary of their first
Bobs, enter an 10,000-mile 17-day car race date. When Roy utters these words in the
around the country as a publicity stunt for midst of a fight with Celestial, it’s impossible to
Titch’s used car business, they enlist the fathom the repercussions of trying to do the
help of their neighbor and their expert right thing.
navigator Willie Bachhuber.
Toluna Magazine | March 2018 11
Source: https://www.esquire.com
