"It feels apt to describe Tom's Crossing, which is nearly as long as War and Peace, the way Henry James once described Tolstoy's epic: It's a "loose, baggy monster." Or less delicately, it's a fat bear in early autumn you know, the one preparing for hibernation? Filled with detail and cowboy affect, a bit ungainly in unaccustomed girth, this book, like that bear, is still capable of unspeakable horrors."
"Newman's third novel in as many years is her first to feature a returning cast: Rocky and her family, whom readers met last year in Sandwich. Maureen Corrigan of Fresh Air described that book, the story of a Cape Cod vacation gone tragicomically sideways, as "my idea of the perfect summer novel: shimmering and substantive." Wreck finds that family two years after that trip, back at home and approaching something that resembles normality but of course, don't expect that kind of stability to last."
Zadie Smith and Susan Straight both live in the neighborhoods where they were raised; Smith returned to northwest London after sojourns abroad while Straight remained in Riverside, California. Both authors have new books out this week alongside other publishing highlights including a biography, a memoir, a western-horror hybrid, and a domestic sequel. Mark Z. Danielewski's Tom's Crossing adopts a comparatively straightforward approach while remaining sprawling, detailed, and gruesome. Catherine Newman's Wreck reunites characters from Sandwich, following Rocky and her family back home two years later as they approach a fragile normality that will not endure.
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