Tell Me Pleasant Things About
Immortality: Stories
By Lindsay Wong
(Penguin Canada, $23)
The Winnipeg-based author’s collection brings together otherwordly creatures and immigrants in a range of horror-tinged stories.
Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality
Shock Induction:
A Novel
By Chuck Palahniuk
(Simon & Schuster, $25)
An online service for billionaires that recruits young, bright students sees high school kids offered untold wealth in exchange for their lives.
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Shock Induction
Playground:
A Novel
By Richard Powers
(Vintage, $26)
A love triangle splinters the friendships of those involved as one goes into literature, another into art and the third becomes a tech billionaire with a debilitating brain disease.
Playground