Morning Child
6 July 2027 · United States
Keep track
Why it is on our radar
Lemoine follows The Margot Affair with a friendship that crosses languages and national histories. The appeal lies in the friction between Asa’s wish for a different life and her incomplete understanding of the people offering it.
About the book
Asa, a Japanese translator, meets Maricel in Tokyo in 1983 and accepts an invitation to Buenos Aires. Their friendship draws her into a family marked by Argentina’s military dictatorship, a missing husband and unspoken desires, until her attraction to Maricel’s brother-in-law threatens the bond that brought her there.
Keep exploring
More like this
More books to explore through shared genres, themes or series.
A Saltwater Requiem
Ramadan centers a Syrian family's migration within a familiar maritime disaster, combining an ensemble historical narrative with questions of home and belonging.
Birds of War
Deón approaches D-Day through a fictional Black woman’s life, connecting the battlefield with earlier struggles over education, family responsibility, and freedom.
Dead Herzls
Cohen follows The Netanyahus with another novel about the space between public history and private lives. The focus on Herzl’s descendants makes the family tragedy, rather than a biography of the political figure, the central reading proposition.