Among the standout fiction reviewed this week: in his "closely observed" eighth novel, You Only Call When You're in Trouble, Stephen McCauley brings a "whole family into greater clarity, developing a portrait that may be his best yet"; Katherine Min's posthumous The Fetishist, "an impeccable, surprisingly humorous, utterly poignant novel" centers an Asiaphilic lothario and the women who love (and hate) him; and Lunar New Year Love Story, Gene Luen Yang's "touching and entertaining YA graphic novel," illustrated by LeUyen Pham, follows a Vietnamese American teen desperately seeking true love despite her family's history of tragic romances. Plus so many more!
In The Writer's Life, Robert Glück, author of About Ed, discusses the books that matter to him.