Reader's Place: August 2, 2021
Travel Fiction
These recent fiction titles explore travels both physical and metaphysical.
The power couple, by Alex Berenson, 2021. (eLibrary, Library Catalog)
When their college-aged daughter is abducted on a European family vacation, Brian and Rebecca Unsworth--both U.S. intelligence staffers--race to find the kidnappers and keep their fragile marriage intact.
Migrations, by Charlotte McConaghym, 2020. (Library Catalog)
Franny Stone arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani, to take her onboard, winning over his salty, eccentric crew with promises that the birds she is tracking will lead them to fish. As the Saghani fights its way south, Franny's new shipmates begin to realize that the beguiling scientist in their midst is not who she seems.
My year abroad, by Chang-rae Lee, 2021. (eLibrary, Library Catalog)
From the award-winning author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure
Oona out of order, by Margarita Montimore, 2020. (eLibrary, Library Catalog, Hoopla)
New Years Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. Should she go to London to study economics, or follow her heart and remain at home in Brooklyn to be with her boyfriend? At the stroke of midnight Oona is torn from her life and everyone she loves, finding herself in her 51 year old body thirty-three years into the future. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she's told is her own, Oona learns that will with each passing year she will leap to another age at random.
Compiled by Ina Rimpau