I have a warm place in my heart for newly published writers – there is something special about fresh blood – so I want to highlight some of the most exciting debut novels of 2016. As with most of my lists, these novels are in no particular order and are listed here only because I enjoyed them.
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The Gallery of Lost Species: A Novel by Nina Berkhout
Berkhout traces the lives of two sisters: Vivienne, a great charmer and a child beauty queen, and Edith, a collector of oddities. As they grow, Vivienne rebels against her mother’s expectations, and Edith ends up working for the National Gallery of Canada where she finds herself tangled in a quest to find a creature that may or may not be extinct. It is a great look at the ways that we make meaning out of our…
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