18 Books You Can't Miss This May
Here are radiant new titles to pick up now, including an incandescent work of historical fiction from Anthony Doerr, witty cultural criticism and a stirring romance set in the Alaskan wilderness.
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'Til the Well Runs Dry
By Lauren Francis-Sharma
400 pages;
Henry Holt and Co.
This expansive first novel opens in Trinidad in 1943, when a fiery 16-year-old becomes involved with a seductive but unreliable police officer; their relationship sets off a chain of events that brings a family's dirty laundry into public view.
— A.W.
Published 04/28/2014
