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Man at the Helm
Nina Stibbe
★★★★· Published 2014· 313 pages
A comic novel about two kids scheming to find their newly-divorced mother a husband. Wickedly funny.
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One Day I Shall Astonish the World
Nina Stibbe
A tender, funny novel about a long female friendship and a woman quietly falling apart. Stibbe is so warm.
Intimacies
Katie Kitamura
A court interpreter at The Hague, unmoored in a foreign city. Cool, precise, and quietly unsettling.
★ 5Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple
Told through emails and documents as a genius, agoraphobic mom vanishes. So funny and clever.