17 Must-Read Books for the New Year
An unlikely debut, a posthumous masterpiece, and more titles to pick up now.
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Virgin and Other Stories
By April Ayers Lawson
192 pages;
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A chaste wife with a wandering eye, a teen crushing on a stoner with a brain tumor—in this acerbic and emotionally rich debut collection, devastatingly realized characters navigate Christianity and sexual distress.
— Natalie Beach
Published 12/13/2016
