DesertAngela Flournaya (sailor)This novel, which has long been registered for the National Book Prize, displays the friendship of five young black women for two decades. The story begins with the death of her grandparents, and then intertwines between the presidency of Barack Obama, the first term of Donald Trump and Covid-19-19 pandemic. The five main characters who live in Los -Angeles and New Yorka reach adulthood during the time of social networks, climate anxiety and violence in the police. Everywhere women are wondering what their responsibilities are to each other and how to “be or do good” in the world and in their most intimate relationships. One of them reflects: “Is our closest and dear always our business, even when it is technically not our business?”
Continuous coastInfinse Jones (Knopf)The field in this debut novel, a former professor of history in Mumbai meets with her mother and her sick child in the church of the Virgin Mary in 1978 – a random meeting that connects two families together for almost thirty years. As the professor retires, the child turns into a noisy child who rebels against the traditions of her fishing community. Jones, nodding to events such as 1992 bombing riots, tells the story at a time when the city fought with religious stress and violent changes – the historic forces with which the characters believe when they try to form their own destinies.
