17 Best Books to Read This Spring
Suspicious strangers, crafty criminals and tender twosomes.
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The World to Come: Stories
By Jim Shepard
272 pages;
Knopf
A stranded Arctic explorer writes a doom-laden diary. An overburdened mom is expert at cleaning up everyone's messes. Men on a World War II submarine battle claustrophobia and inertia. In these powerful stories, an American master chronicles the triumph of courage even among the frail.
— Hamilton Cain
Published 02/11/2017
