Each month, I will pick a handful of buzzworthy and under the radar debut books I feel you’ll enjoy.
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Smart, sexy, and sensual: Kate Davies wrote this summer’s first must read book
Kate Davies has the first smash hit of the summer. In at the Deep End is full of hilarious and sexy relationships that will have readers laughing as they rapidly turn pages.
The debut novel follows Julia, a woman who is completely over sex. She’s over hearing her roommate have it. She’s over seeing it on television and in advertisements. She’s over it until she meets a woman at a party who invites her into a sex-filled world. Now she can’t get enough of it.
Continue reading “Smart, sexy, and sensual: Kate Davies wrote this summer’s first must read book”6 more debut books from the first half of 2019 to read
There have been a lot of debuts that have been published this year. I curated a list of the best debuts for Electric Literature and left off a lot of books I have featured here on Debutiful. Still, there are more debuts that somehow missed my radar.
The following six books are debuts that I have recently read or discovered through booksellers, fellow writers, and librarians.
Continue reading “6 more debut books from the first half of 2019 to read”How German art helped Heidi Diehl craft ‘Lifelines’
Heidi Diehl spent most of her 20s as a musician touring on the road. Artistry has always been apart of her life and as she turned to writing, music would obviously play a big role in her work.
Continue reading “How German art helped Heidi Diehl craft ‘Lifelines’”Chanelle Benz on how her first novel ‘The Gone Dead’ expands on themes from her debut collection
Chanelle Benz‘s debut story collection, 2017’s The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, was one of the best collections published that year. The 10 stories in it range in location and time, but always feature a strong voice. The diverse perspectives ranging from non-traditional Westerns to baroque style chorus narratives proved the author knew how to tell a gripping story.
Continue reading “Chanelle Benz on how her first novel ‘The Gone Dead’ expands on themes from her debut collection”A Life of Books with Nicholas Mancusi, author of ‘A Philosophy of Ruin’
In A Philosophy of Ruin, the debut novel by Nicholas Mancusi, a philosophy professor questions his choices, what life is about, and reevaluates his own outlook on philosophy. The professor, named Oscar, is experiencing one of the roughest patches in his life. To add to everything, he is seduced by a student who gets him caught up in a drug ring that begins to upend everything he has worked for.
Continue reading “A Life of Books with Nicholas Mancusi, author of ‘A Philosophy of Ruin’”De’Shawn Charles Winslow created one of the most memorable characters in fiction
Azelea “Knot” Centre, the main character in De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s debut In West Mills is easily one of the most memorable characters I’ve been introduced to recently. She is, excuse the cliche, a tour-de-force. Is she a saint? No, far from it. Her flaws make her as realistic as a character on page can be. If this book ever gets adapted in Hollywood (it should), whichever actress is lucky enough to play Knot will be stepping into an Oscar-worthy role due to how perfect Winslow wrote her.
Continue reading “De’Shawn Charles Winslow created one of the most memorable characters in fiction”6 debut books you should read this June
Each month, I will pick a handful of buzzworthy and under the radar debut books I feel you’ll enjoy.
Continue reading “6 debut books you should read this June”Getting personal and historical with ‘The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna’ author Juliet Grames
Juliet Grames has been thinking about Stella Fortuna for nearly her entire life. Well, sort of. The titular character of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna bears parallel characteristics to her grandmother’s own life. Both emigrated from Southern Italy to America. Both had an accident that reshaped their personality and life.
Continue reading “Getting personal and historical with ‘The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna’ author Juliet Grames”A Life of Books with Chia-Chia Lin, author of ‘The Unpassing’
Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel, The Unpassing, is a beautiful, bleak, and breathtaking story of a Taiwanese family in Alaska. As tragedy strikes the nation in the 1980s, their own home is struck by an unexpected death. The middle-child Gavin narrates the turmoil they navigate as Lin expertly crafts emotional passages and through-provoking moment.
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