First on the list is Bed by David Whitehouse.
 | Bed Whitehouse, David 2011-08 - Scribner Book Company 9781451614220 Check the Library's Catalog Follows the experiences of a quiet, diligent younger brother whose eccentric and tyrannical older brother takes to his bed on his twenty-fifth birthday and resolves never to leave due to his disillusionment with the adult world. …More |
Then, one of my personal favorites this month, The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
 | The Family Fang Wilson, Kevin 2011-08 - Ecco Press 9780061579035 Check the Library's Catalog When their parents, performance artists who have dedicated themselves to making great art by sacrificing normality, plan one last performance, siblings Annie and Buster, returning home after their individual worlds collapse, are faced with a difficult decision. …More |
And finally, the simple but perfect cover for Glen Duncan's The Last Werewolf
 | The Last Werewolf Duncan, Glen 2011-07 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307595089 Check the Library's Catalog Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but otherwise in the pink of health. The nonstop sex and exercise he's still getting probably contribute to that, as does his diet: unusual amounts of flesh and blood (at least some from friends and relatives). Jake, of course, is a werewolf, and with the death of his colleague he has now become the only one of his kind. This depresses Jake to the point that he's been contemplating suicide. Yet there are powerful forces who for very different reasons want--and have the power--to keep Jake alive. Here is a powerful new version of the werewolf legend--mesmerizing and undeniably sexy, and with moments of violence so elegantly wrought they dazzle rather than repel. But perhaps its most remarkable achievement is to make the reader feel sympathy for a man who can only be described as a monster--and in doing so, remind us what it means to be human. One of the most original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years. …More |
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