PAGE TURNERS
As this pestilent year disappears in the rear-vision mirror, it’s a perfect time to look ahead to see what we’ll be reading in 2021.
To try to fill the joy deficit the year created, expect a great number of books on achieving happiness, on rethinking life and exercise and capitalism and reckoning with the ongoing effects of the pandemic, on defeating anxiety and burnout, embracing health and wellness. In a word: resilience.
There will be memoirs from Patricia Grace and Charlotte Grimshaw, as well as an account of coming out trans from children’s author Kyle Mewburn.
It will be fascinating to see how a year of lockdowns and physical distancing has altered the mental and temporal landscapes of our contemporary fiction. Stephanie Johnson has a new “funny and incisive” novel called Everything Changes, and Catherine Robertson’s Spellbound is the third in the Gabriel’s Bay series.
The indefatigable has produced a speculative-fiction YA novel and a fresh historical tale. has a novel coming, her first in five years.
