The Underground Railroad Doubleday; 306 pages; $26.95 Whitehead’s novel about the illegal pre-Civil War transport of black slaves from the South to the North tells of a surreal, mixtape world that splices one historical era with another for the sake of sharper perception of racial realities. Woodson’s first novel for adults in 20 years is a perfectly cut diamond of a book about the families we make and unmake, and the memories that not only shape us but somehow reveal what we can become and why. Dark Matter Crown; 362 pages; $26.99 In this novel, Crouch borrows concepts from quantum mechanics to address the universal question of “Who would I be if I had made different choices?” The Sunlight Pilgrims By Jenni Fagan Set in November 2020, Fagan’s novel follows a ragtag band of Scottish villagers as they face a time of melting polar caps, a slowing North Atlantic Drift and dangerously plunging temperatures.
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