Flesh by David Szalay
A review of the 2025 Booker Prize winner.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Desai’s prose is extravagantly detailed, endowing the characters with every minuscule nuance of their cultures and the pain that inadvertently accompanies it. Opening with illustrations of two sprawling family trees, Kiran Desai acquaints the reader with Sonia Shah and Sunny Bhatia, two young people quietly aching with identity, aspiration,
Flashlight by Susan Choi
Sparked by a disappearance, Susan Choi’s Flashlight is primarily a mystery novel. It opens with Japanese-Korean immigrant Serk Kang and his ten-year-old daughter, Louisa, walking along a beach in Japan with a flashlight. The next moment, Serk is gone, possibly drowned, leaving only a distraught Louisa who insists her