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Rozan's new novel is The Mayors of New York.
Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Rozan's reply:
I read a lot of non-fiction. I just started Geoff Dyer's The Last Days of Roger Federer. It's about endings, of many kinds, a good book for autumn. Dyer'sVisit S.J. Rozan's website.prose is sharp and clear and the structure of his essays always makes sense. He writes about a range things, including sports. Finding a writer who can articulate the larger societal and, yes, spiritual implications of sports is always a thrill for me.
Two recent fiction reads also have to make this list, though, because I'm very high on them.
One is a fantasy novel, a genre I dip into occasionally. By Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle, Ebony Gate is set in San Francisco among people who look like us, but aren't like us... What I love about this book is the breadth of the authors' imagination and the discipline with which they wield it. Vivid descriptions,propulsive action, and a wry, likeable narrator who abruptly quit her job as an assassin -- how can you go wrong?
The other, equally imaginative but very different, is Rachel Cantor's Half-Life of a Stolen Sister. A re-imagining of the life of the Brontë family, set now and told through narration, letters, diaries, plays... This book swept me up from the beginning. It's a tribute to Cantor's writing that although I know how the story goes -- it's the lives of the Brontës, after all -- I kept hoping for better for them.
The Page 69 Test: Paper Son.
The Page 69 Test: The Art of Violence.
Q&A with S. J. Rozan.
The Page 69 Test: Family Business.
--Marshal Zeringue