13 Powerful Books to Read this September
This month we can't stop reading a colorfully inventive story from
Haruki Murakami, a powerful novel where the survival of hope is at
stake, a story of three wayward souls brought together by happenstance,
and more.
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The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
By Tom Rachman
400 pages;
The Dial Press
After a helter-skelter childhood stretching from Brooklyn to Bangkok, Tooly Zylberberg receives disorienting news that sends her on a quest to decipher her past. A smart, rollicking novel.
— Sarah Meyer
Published 08/27/2014