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This week, our book club members are discussing Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens, the horrific but wickedly delightful story of a woman who benefits from those around her believing she murdered her husband...until things get complicated.
In Editor's Choice, we cover Change, the new novel from Édouard Louis that picks up where his overnight success The End of Eddy left off, following Eddy as he attempts to leave his harsh and impoverished childhood behind for good.
We're also happy to announce genre specific emails for contemporary fiction, historical fiction, biographies & memoirs, and mysteries & thrillers, all of which will continue to be free for our subscribers.
Plus, check out more recommended books set in France, test your mastery of the name "Édouard Louis" in our author pronunciations section and try your hand at a new Wordplay!
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The Bandit Queens
by Parini Shroff
From the Jacket
A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands—in this razor-sharp debut.
From the Discussion
"I loved this book with its mixture of sly black humor and domestic horror...It was very well-written, the characters were well-developed and the plot was engaging. Although it was a quick read, the themes and topics were thoughtful and provocative." —barbarae
"Combining murder, mayhem, and a little mystery, this novel is entertaining and worth the read." —Mitzi
"I loved the book. It is easy to read and informative. It would make a good book for book clubs as there are a lot of available discussion items." —alycet
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This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Change by Édouard Louis, Table for Two by Amor Towles and Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis.
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Change
by Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis's 2014 debut novel, The End of Eddy—an instant literary success, published when Louis was just twenty-one—follows the life of a gay youth in a small, poor factory town in northern France. Based on Louis's own life, the novel details the cruelty hurled at Eddy—by his neighbors, peers, and especially his own family—for his homosexuality: slurs, beatings, taunts, gossip. But while Eddy's bullies and family are no sympathetic figures, the novel is as much about the systematic oppression that Eddy's village faces as it is about their homophobia. The novel is full of bracing anecdotes of the indignities of poverty.
Change, Louis's latest novel, picks up where The End of Eddy leaves off and finishes the story, detailing the difficult, intensely intentional process by which Louis's autofictional alter ego transforms himself from Eddy to Édouard and attempts to do what his younger self thought he'd already done—leave his old world behind. ... continued
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Change by Édouard Louis, featured above, is just one of 125+ books in our France category. Discover more featured recommendations set from Paris to Marseille to champagne vineyards to historic rural villages, both fiction and non-fiction.
This is one of 100+ themed categories you can explore on BookBrowse to find the perfect read for your book club or yourself. Members can access all categories and filters to narrow their browsing, while non-members have limited access.
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Not sure how to say a writer's name?
In addition to author bios and interviews, BookBrowse has a section that shows you how to pronounce 700+ author names.
Recently featured authors with available pronunciations include Édouard Louis, Parini Shroff, Nadine Bjursten and Leo Vardiashvili. Head over to the author pronunciation section and use the letters at the top to navigate.
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Solve our Wordplay puzzle to reveal a well-known expression, and be entered to win a one-year membership to BookBrowse!
"S B the B"
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The answer to the last Wordplay: N N I Good N
"No news is good news"
Meaning: If you don't hear from a person, it's likely that things are all right
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