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Books to Check Out This Week: Kundera's Latest; Tale of Forbidden Love

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The Orchard by Theresa Weir
Theresa Weir, better known as suspense writer Anne Frasier, published this memoir of her early marriage under her real name. It is the story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the golden boy of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards seem to be cursed. Touching yet foreboding, Weir’s abilities as a thriller writer are evident in this tale, which is ultimately about the danger of using pesticides in farming. Memoir.

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, the proprietors of a traveling circus, create their own sideshow family to exhibit across the country. Narrated by their daughter Oly, an albino hunchback, Geek Love examines the intricacies of a strange family-life on the road, while Oly’s brother Arty the Aquaboy starts his own radical religion. Readers of transgressive fiction authors like Chuck Palahniuk or Bret Easton Ellis will enjoy this cult classic. Literary Fiction.

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Sashenka by Simon Shebag Montefiore
In early twentieth-century Russia, Sashenka Zeitlin becomes caught up in the revolutionary fervor destined to bring down the czar, as she also deals with arrest and imprisonment by the czarist's secret police, the bloody battles that engulf the country under the brutal leadership of Stalin, marriage and motherhood, and a forbidden love affair. Historical Fiction

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The sole survivor of a crew sent to explore a new planet, Jesuit priest Emilio Sandoz discovers an alien civilization that raises questions about the very essence of humanity, an encounter that leads Sandoz to a public inquisition and the destruction of his faith. This book is a favorite of many book clubs. Science Fiction.

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Immortality by Milan Kundera
From the author of the bestseller The Unbearable Lightness of Being comes a multi-layered and intricate story, told through the actions of three characters--Agnes, her husband, and her sister--and others in contemporary France and Weimar Germany. The author reflects on the image of the individual, the Western cult of sentiment, and the meaning of love. Literary Fiction.

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