THE INVITATION, by Anne Cherian
CHARMING COMEDY OF MANNERS finds four Indian expats to the US dealing with midlife crises, culture clashes.
Grade: SOLID B
THE INVITATION
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews
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CHARMING COMEDY OF MANNERS finds four Indian expats to the US dealing with midlife crises, culture clashes.
Grade: SOLID B
THE INVITATION
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews
GRANDLY TOPICAL APOCALYPSE in the Michael Crichton tradition features Mayan predictions of 2012 doom come true.
Grade: SOLID B
12.21: A NOVEL
The Dial Press
2012
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Thriller
ENGAGING MEMOIR DETAILS an Englishman’s quest to reconcile the UK’s status symbols with his Pakistani heritage.
Grade: SOLID B
THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN: A MUSLIM BOY MEETS THE WEST
Grand Central
2012
Tags: England, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews
TOP-NOTCH IRISH MYSTERY centers on a family killing and the troubled detective investigating the deaths.
Grade: B PLUS
BROKEN HARBOR
Viking
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
JUICY COURT INTRIGUE, this time revolving around Napoleon’s second wife, Maria Luisa of Austria. Delightful!
Grade: SOLID B
THE SECOND EMPRESS: A NOVEL OF NAPOLEON'S COURT
Crown
2012
Tags: France, Historical Fiction, Napoleon, Novels, Solid B Reviews
BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, EYE-OPENING memoir of China in the 1970s looks at three generations in a time of change.
Grade: A MINUS
THE LITTLE RED GUARD: A FAMILY MEMOIR
Riverhead
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, China, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
META-HISTORICAL META-NOVEL about the lingering specter of World War II and the utter impossibility of fiction.
Grade: B PLUS
HHHH: A NOVEL
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, World War II
POLITICAL COMEDIAN LIZZ WINSTEAD reflects on her career, friends, and family in a set of funny, snarky essays.
Grade: SOLID B
LIZZ FREE OR DIE: ESSAYS
Riverhead
2012
Tags: Essays, Humor, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Politics, Solid B Reviews
A WOMAN UNCOVERS THE secrets behind the death of her best friend, thanks to clues in her unfinished memoir.
Grade: SOLID B
MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE
HarperCollins
2012
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
MICHAEL FRAYN’S FARCE of jet-set conferencegoers and mistaken identities has lots of charm, insider snark.
Grade: B PLUS
SKIOS
Henry Holt & Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Novels