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Rooms with Views and Other Literary Homages Chairman by TOM BEER HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher MARC WINKELMAN from the editor’s desk: Rooms With Views and Other Literary Homages Chairman BY TOM BEER HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher MARC WINKELMAN John Paraskevas # I read my first “beach read” of 2020 well before anyone was venturing to a beach, Chief Executive Officer sitting squarely on my living room couch, sand and surf nowhere to be seen. I was MEG LABORDE KUEHN scheduled to interview Kevin Kwan, author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, about [email protected] Editor-in-Chief his new novel, Sex and Vanity (Doubleday, June 30), and I settled in for a frothy tale TOM BEER set on Capri and in the Hamptons, traditional playgrounds of the rich and famous. [email protected] Vice President of Marketing As I read, my English major’s antennae began to buzz. Our young protagonist, SARAH KALINA Lucie, is on a trip to Italy with her older cousin, Charlotte, and they are quite [email protected] dismayed by the accommodations when they arrive at their hotel on Capri. “We Managing/Nonfiction Editor ERIC LIEBETRAU specifically reserved rooms with ocean views, and now they are telling us we can’t [email protected] have them because some other guests extended their stay? What a sham!” com- Fiction Editor LAURIE MUCHNICK plains Charlotte. [email protected] Tom Beer If you’ve read E.M. Forster’s A Room With a View—or seen the 1985 Merchant Young Readers’ Editor VICKY SMITH Ivory film adaptation—you know what happens next. Another hotel guest—here a [email protected] flamboyant Hong Kong matron, traveling with her handsome, inscrutable son—offers to exchange rooms Young Readers’ Editor with Lucie and Charlotte. Kwan’s novel, masquerading as a beach book, is in fact an homage to a liter- LAURA SIMEON [email protected] ary classic—swapping Florence for Capri but smuggling in a contemporary update of the original’s social Editor at Large commentary. It all works beautifully, on a few levels. MEGAN LABRISE The English major in me was delighted to encounter my beloved old E.M. [email protected] Vice President of Kirkus Indie Forster got up in new garb. Forster was also the inspiration behind one of my KAREN SCHECHNER favorite 21st-century novels, On Beauty (2005), Zadie Smith’s sly riff on Howard’s [email protected] Senior Indie Editor End. Here, two academic families, the Kipps and the Belseys, separated by the DAVID RAPP Atlantic Ocean and a political gap nearly as wide, find themselves nevertheless [email protected] Indie Editor intertwined. Where Forster explored gradations of class in Edwardian England, MYRA FORSBERG Smith puts our multicultural world under the microscope. Kirkus’ reviewer [email protected] wrote, “As Smith details the generation-spanning interactions of various minori- Associate Manager of Indie KATERINA PAPPAS ties within a predominantly White, liberal community, she finds shades of mean- [email protected] ing in shades of skin tone, probing the prickly issues of affirmative action, race Editorial Assistant JOHANNA ZWIRNER relations, and cultural imperialism while skewering the political correctness that [email protected] masks emotional honesty.” Mysteries Editor Of course the classic English author who inspires an entire cottage industry of literary homages is Jane THOMAS LEITCH Contributing Editor Austen. Sonali Dev, who concocted an Austen reboot set in the Indian diaspora with last year’sPride, Preju- GREGORY McNAMEE (2019), is back this summer with (Morrow/HarperCollins, May dice, and Other Flavors Recipe for Persuasion Copy Editor 26). Dev recasts Austen’s last novel with an Indian American chef in Palo Alto, California, who reluctantly BETSY JUDKINS joins the cast of a TV cooking show—she needs the money to save her restaurant—only to find herself Designer partnered with her high school boyfriend, now an international soccer star. Our reviewer called the novel ALEX HEAD Director of Kirkus Editorial an “endearing romance that sensitively depicts the poignancy of loss and reconciliation.” LAUREN BAILEY Pride and Prejudice alone has launched a thousand retellings—among them Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld’s [email protected] Production Editor clever 2016 update set in Cincinnati, Ohio; Jo Baker’s Longbourn (2013), which foregrounds the Bennet HEATHER RODINO family servants; and Mary B, in which Katherine J. Chen hands the mic to Lizzy and Jane’s shy, overlooked [email protected] younger sister Mary. And who could forget ? Website and Software Developer Pride and Prejudice and Zombies PERCY PEREZ (Whether Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 novel was an homage or a desecration is [email protected] still open to debate.) Advertising Director MONIQUE STENSRUD Likewise, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre makes for dependable source mate- [email protected] rial: Margot Livesey’s The Flight of Gemma Hardy (2012) moves the story of a gov- Advertising Associate TATIANA ARNOLD erness and her tortured, romantic employer to Scotland in the 1950s and ’60s; [email protected] Patricia Park’s Re Jane (2015) puts a Korean American/Queens/Brooklyn spin on Graphic Designer the story; Lindsay Faye’s (2016) adds murder to the mix. LIANA WALKER Jane Steele [email protected] There are many, many more in this vein. This summer, if you pick up one of Controller these contemporary literary homages, I suggest you do what I did after finish- MICHELLE GONZALES ing : Go back and read the original inspiration. Kwan’s delightful [email protected] Sex and Vanity for customer service novel—and Forster’s small masterpiece—have been two highlights of my read- or subscription questions, ing this year. please call 1-800-316-9361 Print indexes: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/print-indexes Submission Guidelines: www.kirkusreviews.com/about/submission-guidlines Kirkus Blog: www.kirkusreviews.com/blog Subscriptions: www.kirkusreviews.com/subscription Advertising Opportunities: www.kirkusreviews.com/about/advertising- Newsletters: www.kirkusreviews.com/subscription/newsletter/add Cover photo by opportunities Gary Isaacs 2 | 15 july 2020 | from the editor’s desk | kirkus.com | you can now purchase books online at kirkus.com contents fiction The Kirkus Star is awarded INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ...........................................................4 REVIEWS ...............................................................................................4 to books of remarkable EDITOR’S NOTE.....................................................................................6 merit, as determined by the COVER STORY: STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES .................................. 14 impartial editors of Kirkus. MYSTERY ............................................................................................. 29 SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY ..........................................................37 ROMANCE ........................................................................................... 38 nonfiction INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ......................................................... 41 REVIEWS ............................................................................................. 41 EDITOR’S NOTE...................................................................................42 INTERVIEW: ANNE APPLEBAUM ....................................................54 children’s INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ......................................................... 79 EDITOR’S NOTE................................................................................... 80 REVIEWS ............................................................................................. 81 INTERVIEW: LISA MOORE RAMÉE ................................................. 86 BOARD & NOVELTY BOOKS ............................................................143 CONTINUING SERIES ......................................................................145 EDITOR’S NOTE................................................................................ 146 young adult INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS .......................................................148 REVIEWS ...........................................................................................148 INTERVIEW: RACHEL LYNN SOLOMON .......................................154 Ali Smith completes her elliptical, indie engrossing seasonal quartet, revisiting INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................167 themes of activism and art. Read the REVIEWS ............................................................................................167 review on p. 26. EDITOR’S NOTE.................................................................................168 Don’t wait on the mail for reviews! You can read pre-publication reviews as INDIE BOOKS OF THE MONTH ....................................................... 189 they are released on kirkus.com—even before they are published in the magazine. You can also access the current issue and back issues of Kirkus Reviews on our SEEN & HEARD ................................................................................. 190 website by logging in as a subscriber. If you do not have a username or password, please contact customer care to set up your account by calling 1.800.316.9361 or APPRECIATIONS: DAVID MCCULLOUGH’S 1776 ......................... 191 emailing [email protected]. | kirkus.com | contents | 15 july 2020 | 3 fiction These titles earned the Kirkus Star: HOMELAND ELEGIES Akhtar, Ayad Little, Brown (368 pp.) HOMELAND ELEGIES by Ayad Akhtar .............................................. 4 $28.00 | Sep. 15, 2020 978-0-31649-642-1 AN INCONVENIENT
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