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12<br />
No.<br />
The Best New Books<br />
A widow’s search for a sea creature,<br />
siblings at each other’s throats and a<br />
story of young love and the games<br />
we play EDITED BY KIM HUBBARD<br />
BOOK<br />
WEEK<br />
OF THE<br />
INSETS, FROM LEFT: NINA SUBIN; DEAN ISIDRO; JAMES DREW; (BOOKS) PETER ZAMBOUROS(4)<br />
Allegra Goodman<br />
The Chalk Artist<br />
NOVEL This love story<br />
matches Nina, an idealistic<br />
teacher and the daughter<br />
of an electronic gaming<br />
magnate, with Collin, a<br />
hipster whose drawings get<br />
him a job at her dad’s company.<br />
Mesmerizing depictions<br />
of the virtual-reality<br />
landscapes of “Neverwhen”<br />
and “Underworld”<br />
make the games’ dangerous<br />
power over one of<br />
Nina’s students very real.<br />
NEW IN NONFICTION<br />
Kurt Newman,<br />
M.D.<br />
Healing Children<br />
Kids’ resilience,<br />
both physical and<br />
emotional, is at<br />
the heart of this<br />
illuminating and<br />
wise book by one of<br />
America’s foremost<br />
pediatric surgeons.<br />
Christine Pelisek<br />
The Grim Sleeper<br />
The hunt for a<br />
vicious serial killer<br />
who targeted the<br />
most vulnerable<br />
women in South<br />
Central L.A.—as<br />
told by <strong>People</strong> writer<br />
Pelisek, who first<br />
broke the story.<br />
Grant Ginder<br />
The <strong>People</strong><br />
We Hate at<br />
the Wedding<br />
NOVEL When siblings with<br />
long-simmering resentments<br />
are invited to their<br />
sister’s obscenely expensive<br />
nuptials in rural England,<br />
all the Klonopin and room<br />
service in the world can’t<br />
head off disaster. This wedding<br />
is a feast of bitchy characters,<br />
dysfunctional family<br />
dynamics and hilarious,<br />
over-the-top catastrophe.<br />
Janet Mock<br />
Surpassing<br />
Certainty<br />
Writer<br />
and act<br />
ivist<br />
Mocklooks back<br />
onher turbulen<br />
nt<br />
20s, when she was<br />
keeping her tra<br />
ans<br />
identity private<br />
as<br />
shenavigated life<br />
and love.<br />
Sarah Perry<br />
The Essex Serpent<br />
NOVEL Set at the end of the 19th century,<br />
Perry’s irresistible novel centers on<br />
Cora Seaborne, a widow set free by the<br />
death of her overbearing husband.<br />
Unleashing her independent spirit, she<br />
travels from London to a village where<br />
the locals believe they’re being terrorized<br />
by a magical sea creature. Can she<br />
uncover the truth? The plot is animated<br />
by the period’s clash between science<br />
and superstition, while Cora and the<br />
characters around her sparkle with the<br />
vitality of the coming<br />
modern age.<br />
CONTRIBUTORS BOOKSRobinMicheli,MarionWinik MOVIES Char Adams MUSIC JeffNelson,JordanRuntagh<br />
PEOPLE <strong>June</strong> <strong>26</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
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