12 Brilliant Books You Can Read in a Weekend

Improvement, by Joan Silber

In Joan Silber’s novel Improvement, winner of the 2017 National Critics Book Circle Award for fiction, a handful of lives crisscross in a tapestry that weaves together an eccentric aunt named Kiki, her niece Reyna, Reyna’s loveable-but-troubled boyfriend Boyd, and more. Silber, often compared to Alice Munro, delivers her characters with a naturalness that’s spellbinding. At the very heart of this novel are desire, redemption, and a deep resonance for what it truly means to live ones’ life.

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