In August we see new novels from Tom Perrotta, Julie Otsuka, Nicholson Baker, Robert Olen Butler and DBC Pierre plus a sequel to Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight.
1. A Small Hotel by Robert Olen Butler
© Grove
Robert Olen Butler delivers a literary romance and a portrait of a relationship taken backwards from its breaking point to its beginning.
2. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
© Penguin Press
In what amounts to a sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller revisits her story of survival in Afrrica, this time with the focus on her mother, Nicola.
3. House of Holes: A Book of Raunch by Nicholson Baker
© Simon & Schuster
Returning to the erotic content of such novels as Vox and The Fermata which put him on the literary map, Nicholson Baker imagines a world in which one's every sexually desire is easily fulfilled.
4. Lights Out In Wonderland by DBC Pierre
© W.W. Norton
DBC Pierre's disaffected twenty-smething protagonist has decided to end it all, but not quickly. Instead, he travels betweens between London, Tokyo, and Berlin in what he views as a terminal adventure.
5. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
© Knopf
In The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka portrays a group of Japanese mail order brides in San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century.
6. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
© St. Martins
When 100 people are raptured from a suburban enclave, those left behind - "the leftovers" - are left to deal with their abandonment issues.
