Novels
Jim Lewis recommends
You're an Animal (2023)
Jardine Libaire
"You're an Animal is shaped like a scimitar, like a scythe: a long, exquisitely curved blade, polished and carefully honed, and with a tip so sharp it'll take you apart. . . . It swings through its story swiftly and surely, unsentimental without being gratuitously bleak, thoughtful and empathetic about lives which are usually overromanticized or ignored. . . . It's stranger than you expect it to be, too, sudden in its turns, shocking in its progression, and yet, not just plausible, but seemingly inevitable. Let it be inevitable, too, that you read it."
