Three books about the road not taken, and the one you're standing on.
Book 1
Heart the Lover
Lily King
READ IT
A woman, the two men she loved, and the decades that follow one choice. Lily King writes longing like weather, and you feel every front move through. Read it.
Book 2
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
READ IT
Two lives circling love and exile across twenty years. Nineteen years in the writing, and not a careless sentence in it. Read it.
Book 3
Flashlight
Susan Choi
FOR SOME
A man walks onto a dark beach and never comes back, and his family spends decades in the undertow. Brilliant, cold, and demanding. For some.
Now tell me what you’re reading. Have you read any of these? Or something better? Bring it to the Reading Room.