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|author=Charlie CarrollPolly Barton|title=What Am I, A Deer?|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Polly Barton's debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. The narrator, newly relocated from London to Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a new audience. Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of disappearing altogether. From this, the novel opens out into a wider, resonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in order to be understood, accepted, or loved?|isbn=1804272175}}{{Frontpage|author=Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The LipDisappearing Act|rating=54

|summary=Despite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova''Melody Janie Rowe'' even s message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the name town of F for a literary festival she is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to bea guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of events, and maybe that's M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the pointshow. To me the name sings The train functions as a motif of English folk musictransience and impermanence, but even in my use while the circus embodies the reshaping of that word Englishidentity and a retreat into fantasy, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetimpulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself. |isbn=15293341791804272329

|isbn=B003UH99X4295967572X|title=The Eustace DiamondsPale Pieces|author=Anthony TrollopeG M Stevens

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come Our unnamed narrator is about to regret begin a train journey with his marriage but he didncompanion Django. Where they't live long enough for re going and what the purpose of this to become a problem. After his death, his wifejourney is, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executorsis uncertain. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although Django found the precise circumstances of tickets ''on the giving varied from telling floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to tellingaccompany him. Lady Eustace was Why not a woman ? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to whom truth meant the station by coach and the train is a great deal. All that was important to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamondssteam locomotive.

|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUMakenna Goodman|title=Phineas Finn|author=Anthony TrollopeHelen of Nowhere

|summary=Phineas Finn is It could be argued that the son pervading theme of Dr Malachi Finn, this book is malaise - a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son hard-to London to train as a lawyer. Phineas's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of them, Barrington Erle, suggests -place feeling that he runs for Parliament something in the forthcoming election. His father your life is not entirely in favour quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of this as members are not remunerated losing both his career and it would be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his electiondiscomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. One The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the doctorcountryside house he's patients is Lord Tulla considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who controls shows the protagonist around the borough of Loughshane house shares stories about Helen, and by this stroke of luck Finn describes her as ''an entity that ispure consciousness, eventuallybeyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, elected by a small marginHelen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205

|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOOlga Tokarczuk|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5

|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: itWhat's the story good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one woman and two men who are vying with each other for her love. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousingo on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Grey. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour 'House of Day, House of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Kate. ItNight's obvious that there's still a great deal , somewhat reflects this notion of chemistry between John and Alice shifting realities - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to hernight, however quotidian, causing chaos. George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and But, the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness. This thread constant in that image is the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start with but you will warm to herhouse, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918

|author=Lucy HollandThea Lenarduzzi|title=SistersongThe Tower

|summary=Sistersong is part ''How unctuous are the fats of a genre I particularly enjoyanother's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the modern retelling identity of folk and fairy tales. These storiesT, for most the protagonist of usthis tale. Just as T's story is being told, are a cornerstone the story of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdatedsecond protagonist is unveiled: Annie, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role daughter of women. Sistersong is a perfect example wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a modern retelling done welltower, the plot captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to lifeabove all, an enticing story to feel real and humanT. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, most importantly they feel relatable both in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate quest for the pre-Saxon age they live truth and knowledge, and in. This is a masterpiece service of storytelling myth, fable and I was captivated from beginning to endfantasy. |isbn=15290390371804271799

|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeVaim|rating=54

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and SensibilityAll was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, Pride a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, EmmaEline, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels two of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were protagonists caught in my inbox in a matter of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onits melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829

|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, EmmaBig Kiss, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenBye-Bye |rating=4.5

|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of listening for the purchase intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of one audio booklove lost. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and theykiss me,'re presented in the order in which they were published' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934

|author=Andrea Bajani Helene Bessette and Elizabeth Harris Kate Briggs (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsLili is Crying

|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaFirst published in 1953 in French, but one that left me this novel is a little conflicted. We start timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, Bessette wrenches words and before we even know his gender or sentences from their proper position on the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narrationpage and positions them elsewhere, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurdisjointed, and carted off to do all truncated. Like the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with lives of her (night-time and business) partnercharacters, and feelings of abandonment they are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressoften left tragically incomplete.|isbn=19398109651804271675

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Jonathan Buckley|title=Kokoschka's DollOne Boat|rating=2.54

|summary=Well''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this looked very much like work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book I could love from that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=Black Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the get-goAlaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which is why I picked my review copy up enables her bad habits and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any her accidental neglect of itEmaleen. I found things to potentially delight me each time – Described as a weird section ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the middle Wolverine river and live on darker stock paperthe North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a chapter whose number was in the 20strange, taciturn and solitary man,000swho says he has a cabin over there, letters used as narrative formshe feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and so onEmaleen's lives forever.|isbn=1472279042}} {{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=4. It intrigued with 5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the subterranean voice chessboard of life and is something of a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of grandmaster at putting it mentionedinto words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, tooas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. But you've seen Among the star rating that comes with many relationships woven into this reviewstory, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and can tell that if love was on these pagesPeter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, it was not actually caused by themthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. So what happened?|isbn=15294026970571365469

|isbnauthor=0571362672Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleWhite Nights

|genre=Crime (Historical)Short Stories|summary=''WellAs always in Dostoyevsky, at least you're the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a Wexford mancharacter is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785}}{{Frontpage|author=James Baldwin|title=Giovanni''s Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced |summary=''Giovanni's Room'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of follows the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with the Inniskilling Dragoons at DunkirkGiovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. The niceties had While David is engaged to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was novel arises not from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-infidelity but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osbornefrom the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's class crippling shame and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit denial of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled therehis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356

|author= Tahi SaihateAlba de Cespedes |title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonForbidden Notebook|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our past even though it is a place to which we can never return. Tahi Saihateprotagonist, Valeria Cossati, in purchases her debut novel ''Astral Seasonforbidden notebook, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how learns about herself in the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important most intimate and often life-alteringrevealing ways.|isbn= 19162771011782278222

|author=Laura Imai MessinaOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Phone Box at the End My Year of the WorldRest and Relaxation|rating=53

|summary= In At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the northeast fragility of Japanhuman relationships; at worst, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his garden. ''Inside there it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the windunlikeable protagonist.'' It is a real placeThis unlikely heroine, a necessary placeslim, attractive and I am pleased to see newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to her storyworld, that the place is but resolves not a tourist destination, to lose sleep over it is a sacred place: in fact, a place that must be left to those who really need ither solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=178658039X1784707422

|author=Amin MaaloufMatthew Tree|title=The DisorientedWe'll Never Know

|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back to be different from his homeland for 25 years. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers to think of him a former-friendfather, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friend, or maybe. The falling out was a long time ago, drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and Adam's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing that he'll regret not doing sowho had endless crises of self confidence. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants So Tim applied himself tohis studies, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next planecultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CYB0CVFXPGP8

|authorisbn=Joanne M HarrisB0C47LV1PC|title=A Pocketful of CrowsFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= I have always been of Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the mind that once question should you're above picture-book level and before make it? Or is the question if you get to graphic sex & violencedid, there would it land? The catch is no difference between books that the answer for children and books for adultsboth could well be... There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor onesno.  ''A Pocketful of CrowsFragility'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers set as witness the use city of the middle initial in the author's name Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to differentiate emerge from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delight.|isbn=1473222184restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Mosby Woods|title=A Life Without EndWhirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=I looked at The West isn't the calendar dominant force it once was. Nobody in the other weekWest is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this year – I knowasset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, yet another oneright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. It wonTess Hembry't s roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be one of the major numbershappier there, but instead, she lives in the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms house on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbersriverbank, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which built of course stands for Over Bloody Eightybroken bricks.) Now if thatInsubstantial as it might look, it's stood the extent passage of my mid-life crisistime, I guess I have to be happystorms and floods. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseHer husband, Richard, but he might be said struggles to be living one. Determined grow his vegetables, to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with complete the assistant delivery rounds - and to the first geneticist he interviews, bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and they end up with a childMax, which is at least a way of continuing the life of rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his genes, and a motive to keep on goingfather. But how can he get to not flick the People don'final way outt believe that they' switchre related, especially much less twins and there's an assumption when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|author= Maryse CondéClaire North|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life House of Ivan and IvanaOdysseus|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post- world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none ''What could matter more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, love?'' The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivanafollow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca''picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to which it latched itself. Ivan war at Troy and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, a French overseas departmentthen by divine intervention never returned home. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for each otherthe throne of the Western Isles. As they grow up Having survived – politically and move overseasphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the ravages brink of a post-colonial society drive them apart fragile peace. One that shatters however with tragic consequencesthe return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=16428606970356516075

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweKay Chronister|title= Ogadinma OrDesert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, Everything Will Be All Rightthis genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There

|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma ''But fearing something and heartache having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of being a woman in 1980s Nigeriawhat we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right ''Beautiful Shining People''revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Ogadinma Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the eponymous heroine development of the storytechnology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them.I would get on board that ship, I vowed. We are with her I would take my place, not just in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the storyname of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, although Olisakwe writes in third persontoo. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. This provides  Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a sense son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of detachment the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the reader and highlights opportunity comes – to join the isolation Argonauts, a fierce band of Ogadinma. She is exiled warriors, descendent from her fatherthe Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis's home name and sent to Lagos where she carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence a whirlwind of challenges and indignities discovery and Ogadinma through it, Atalanta must utilise remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her resourcefulness to escapeundoing.|isbn=19116481601472292154

|author=Elliot ReedAmanthi Harris|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingBeautiful Place|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is the story of Padma, a young boySri Lankan, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the death southern coast of his mother and his father's abandonmenther home country. However, it isn't told in the usual narrative wayThis is a place she spent her formative years. InsteadIt is not a place she was born into, but the book is made up one she thinks of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotionshome. It runs alphabetically How she came to be at the Villa, starting with ABSENCEhow it became her home, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDERand the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. As I began to read I did find myself thinking Padma'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used s present fails to escape her past and much like the stylemusical score of a film, and was instead caught up in William's storythat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|isbn=19115454181784631930

|authorisbn= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)178563335X|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating= 45|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= When we first meet Rachel Bird she''It Would Be Night s a trainee vicar, sitting in Caracason a PCC meeting and wondering why they'' illuminates re held when you need to pick the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelachildren up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon Thelma's mother and chronicles Adelaidadaughter-in-law won's coming to terms with t let her new solitude in this world and see her attempts grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to escape it. Danger stalks develop a real bond with the shadows parish - andshe's in awe of the vicar, in Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a society where walk on the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.}}

|isbn=14711863931398515388|title=Photographer of The Boy and the LostDog|author=Caroline ScottSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=May 1921First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Edie receives a photograph through The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the post. There is no letter or note with itloss of livelihoods was widespread. There is nothing written on The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the back list of priorities but - six months after the photographtsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. It is He wasn't a picture of her husbanddog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, Francis. Francis has been missing naked except for four yearshis beaten leather hat. TechnicallyLong strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he has been "missing, believed killed" but that filled them.'' How is not something that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a young widow can believesixpence. She hangs on And author Marco North, who has the word 'missing'most wonderful turn of phrase, disbelieving the word killedstarts as he means to go on.