We review a strong crop of fiction this week: an aging novelist reevaluates her mediocre career in Tom Rachman's "wry, incisive" The Imposters; Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune take center stage in The First Ladies, the second "mesmerizing and revealing historical novel" by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray; K Patrick's "mesmerizing" debut novel, Mrs. S, explores the sultry relationship between a boarding-school employee and the headmaster's wife; and a teen's eyes open to issues of social inequity and period poverty in Code Red, a "stirring and thought-provoking" middle-grade novel by Joy McCullough. Plus so many more!
Don't miss The Writer's Life, in which Sam Szabo offers a tutorial of sorts on comics creation.
--Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness