Kick Back With These Summer Reads From Iowa Authors
Swan Song
By Elin Hilderbrand (94MFA)
Hatchette
The final installment of Hilderbrand’s Nantucket novels follows familiar characters trying to save their way of life when rich, mysterious strangers—and the chaos they bring with them—threaten to destroy it.
Same As It Ever Was
By Claire Lombardo (17MFA)
Penguin Random House
Lombardo returns with a family drama about a middle-aged woman re-examining her life after running into a friend from her checkered past.
Digging Stars
By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (15MFA)
Norton
Talented graduate students in an elite astronomy and technology program challenge a classmate’s ideas on family legacies, nationhood, and the boundaries of art and science.
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