Reading Recommendations

The author of the bestselling memoir, The Bookmaker’s Daughter (1991), offers a beautifully written, multigenerational, debut novel set in Manhattan in 2001. Abbot observes the marriages and extra-marital entanglements of eight compelling characters whose relationships are changed by the events of 9/11, in a novel quintessentially of New York City.

A regicidal conspiracy on Sarl, a remote shell world (a multileveled artificial planet), endangers the king’s sons and summons home his daughter, Djan, an agent for the shadowy Special Circumstances. However, an ancient and powerful menace to organic life lies hidden and waiting on Sarl in another astounding entry in the “Culture” series.