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Which books of 2022 will you remember and recommend?<\/p>\n
Thursday on the PBS NewsHour, Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and New York Times books editor Gilbert Cruz join Jeffrey Brown to share some of their favorite books of the year. Here, they describe a few of their suggestions.<\/p>\n
This is a novel that tells the rise of a financier in New York City in the early 20th century, but it tells it from four different perspectives. \u2026 This is one of my favorite books of the year. <\/p>\n
\u2013 Gilbert Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jennifer Egan wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit From The Goon Squad. \u2026 And The Candy House is a sequel. \u2026 You find some of the same characters, but it sort of takes them in a completely different direction. \u2026It is grappling with what it means to be hooked into technology and social media.<\/p>\n \u2013 Gilbert Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n WATCH:<\/strong> New novel imagines how memories can be accessed and reviewed by ourselves and others<\/p>\n This is a novella\u2026 telling the story of a young girl who’s shipped off to relatives she doesn’t know to live for a summer on a farm. \u2026 Keegan raises the question of whether this is a kindness or not to introduce a child who has been deprived to a different way of living and different relationships when she’s going to be shipped back to her parents at the end of the summer.<\/p>\n \u2013 Maureen Corrigan<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It’s about a Jamaican American family. The parents come to Florida to \u2026 try to give their two young sons another kind of life. They keep getting knocked down. The 2008 recession. Hurricane Andrew. racism Escoffery is a terrific writer\u2026 and the \u201cYou\u201d his characters are trying to survive is America. <\/p>\n \u2013 Maureen Corrigan<\/em><\/p>\n It’s a memoir of growing up as a child of Taiwanese immigrants in California. But it’s also the memoir of going to Berkeley in the mid-1990s. \u2026 [The author] becomes friends with the son of Japanese American immigrants, a boy named Ken, who he first thinks is sort of this very simple frat boy, but then grows to learn is much more complicated. \u2026 It’s a book about grief. It’s a book about youth and nostalgia. <\/p>\n \u2013 Gilbert Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n This is a book about animals and specifically about the ways that animals perceive the world and how those perceptions are different from the way that humans see the world. \u2026 Whether you like animals or not, it was just endlessly fascinating.<\/p>\n \u2013 Gilbert Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n WATCH:<\/strong> Grappling with grief as US COVID deaths surpass 1 million<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ada Calhoun is writing about her father, Peter Schjeldahl, who was an art critic for The New York Times. \u2026 She comes upon these cassette tapes that her father made when he was trying to write a biography of the New York poet Frank O’Hara. And she decides she’s going to use these tapes to try to complete what he never completed. \u2026 \u201cAlso A Poet\u201d is literary criticism. It’s biography of both her father and Frank O’Hara. And it’s also a daughter’s memoir and a love letter to New York City. So it’s fabulous.<\/p>\n \u2013 Maureen Corrigan<\/em><\/p>\n It’s about the pioneering plastic surgery work of Harold Gillies, a doctor during World War I, who’s faced with this catastrophe of all of these men who’ve had their faces shattered by the new technology of warfare during World War I. There are no textbooks , there are no guides. He’s trying to put these men’s faces back together again and to give them their lives. <\/p>\n \u2013 Maureen Corrigan<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A novel starring a character that she’s written about several times before, Lucy Barton. And in this novel, Lucy experiences the pandemic. She is an older woman who has to leave New York to go up to Maine to join her husband in a cabin so they can sort of get away from what they imagine is a very dangerous place to be. \u2026 I found it extremely readable.<\/p>\n \u2013 Gilbert Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n WATCH:<\/strong> How fiction draws Pulitzer-winner Elizabeth Strout home to Maine<\/p>\n Alexandra Horowitz is the head of the canine cognition lab at Barnard, and she’s written a lot of nonfiction about the way dogs think. \u2026 She and her family adopted a puppy during the pandemic. And so it’s partly that personal story \u2026 but also this attempt, yes, to get into the mind of a creature who we love but who is not us. <\/p>\n \u2013 Maureen Corrigan<\/em><\/p>\n Corrigan suggested \u201cVladimir\u201d by Julia May Jonas<\/strong> and Cruz suggested \u201cOlga Dies Dreaming\u201d by Xochitl Gonzalez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Which books of 2022 will you remember and recommend? Thursday on the PBS NewsHour, Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and New York Times books editor Gilbert Cruz join Jeffrey Brown to share some of their favorite books of the year. Here, they describe a few of their suggestions. \u201cTrust\u201d by Hernan Diaz …<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe Candy House\u201d by Jennifer Egan<\/h2>\n
\n\u201cFoster\u201d by Clare Keegan <\/h2>\n
\n\u201cIf I Survive You\u201d by Jonathan Escoffery <\/h2>\n
\n\u201cStay True\u201d by Hua Hsu<\/h2>\n
\n\u201cAn Immense World\u201d by Ed Yong<\/h2>\n
\n\u201cAlso a Poet\u201d by Ada Calhoun<\/h2>\n
\n\u201cThe Facemaker\u201d by Lindsey Fitzharris<\/h2>\n
\n\u201cLucy by the Sea\u201d by Elizabeth Strout<\/h2>\n
\n\u201cThe Year of the Puppy\u201d by Alexandra Horowitz<\/h2>\n
And two more personal favorites\u2026<\/h2>\n