Read about the other picks at the Observer.Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
I fell in love with two American first novels. Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel (Harper) is the gorgeously written story of a marriage over several decades, and it takes place in Miami, Florida, a place so vividly depicted you feel like you've travelled there while reading. If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous (HarperPerennial) is about a college graduate who goes to teach English in Japan, thinking she'll end up in Tokyo and instead landing in a rural nuclear power plant town. It's funny in a sharp, dark, painfully true way.
The Page 69 Test: Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel.
The Page 69 Test: If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous.
--Marshal Zeringue
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