Lily Tuck

Dec 20, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Lily Tuck

There have been countless histories, novels and films relating the horrors of the Holocaust. However, when done well, these narratives can still shock readers or viewers out of contemporary complacency and compel us to contend with this all-too-recent atrocity in new and important ways. That's the experience many will have when they pick up Lily Tuck's new book, THE REST IS MEMORY.

Dec 10, 2024 | nytimes.com | Lily Tuck

THE REST IS MEMORY, by Lily TuckLily Tuck has range. She has written historical fiction set in South America - her novel " The News From Paraguay " won the National Book Award in 2004 - and low-key realist short stories about contemporary life. These works move with ease and a kind of persuasive expat familiarity between the south of France; Thailand; Cambridge, Mass.; and a dude ranch in Nevada.

Dec 2, 2024 | startribune.com | Malcolm Forbes |Lily Tuck

A black-and-white photograph of a young girl. Her hair has been roughly shaved. She has a bruise under her lower lip. She is wearing a striped concentration camp uniform. On the shirt, her number is discernible: 26947. Photographer Wilhelm Brasse’s camera doesn’t lie: His subject stares straight ahead, not with indifference or defiance but fear. Ten years ago, writer Lily Tuck came across this photograph when reading Brasse’s obituary.

Sep 13, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Amanda Lee Koe |Elias Khoury |Lily Tuck |John Sayles

Ali Smith. Pantheon, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-70156-0Smith (How to Be Both) delivers an ingenious speculative novel in which two children come to terms with the mysteries of their unnamed country, which carries a whiff of post-Brexit England. The narrator, a 16-year-old boy named Brice, accompanies his younger sister, Rose, to see off their mother after she’s forced to leave for work in a far-off city. Upon returning to their house, the siblings find it encircled with a red line.

Jul 3, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Sally Rooney |Amanda Lee Koe |Elias Khoury |Lily Tuck

Bestseller Rooney returns with a boldly experimental and emotionally devastating story of estrangement (after Beautiful World, Where Are You). After their father dies, brothers Peter and Ivan Koubek drift further apart. Peter, 32, is a depressed Dublin lawyer torn between his college girlfriend, Sylvia, who broke up with him with after she suffered a disabling accident six years earlier, and 23-year-old Naomi, a sometime sex worker.