Literary standouts, part 2:

Sue Orr, <i>Loop Tracks</i>: a quiet book, entirely successful as a piece of realist women’s fiction, which at the same time, under the surface, manages to be terrifically conceptually and structurally complex (loop tracks!), so it quietly reorganises your brain while you read on for the understated plot and complicated characters.

Mona Awad <i>All's Well</i>: an amazing, unguessable, lush, magic-realist Shakespeare remix, a novel about a 40something woman in chronic pain, a campus novel, and a novel about putting on a play, so... perhaps the perfect book?

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