GRIMLY COMIC NOVEL follows the bloody vendetta between two groups of misfits: 20ish slackers v. 40ish spinsters. B PLUS

POPULAR HITS OF THE SHOWA ERA
W. W. Norton & Company
2011

PROVOCATIVE, SHARP BOOK by French medieval historian challenges readers to look beyond the conventional wisdom.

OLIVER SACKS CONSIDERS the neurology of visual crises with clarity, compassion, and a moving personal account.

THOUGHTFUL BIOGRAPHY of the complex and troubled chess prodigy Bobby Fischer combines sympathy with insight.

PIONEERING AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOCKEY shares her inspiring story of facing mental illness, addiction, homelessness.

SCOTLAND’S MOST ECCENTRIC DETECTIVE, Hamish Macbeth, is back with another taut mystery all snuggled up in cozy.

AN IRANIAN-AMERICAN WRITER looks at her mother’s experiences, including marriage at age 13. Moving, revelatory.

RACY, ENGAGING, SCHOLARLY but never dry, this history of 18th-century London’s red-light spots is eye-opening.

CLEVER MASHUP OF society novels and supernatural thrillers features a plucky heroine, a mother-in-law from Hell.

IMPRESSIONISTIC AND MOVING writer’s memoir of her 1960s fascination with male artists, her later self-discovery.