Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations, and you should read as many of them as possible.
A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown, May 5)The great British writer’s sideways sequel to Life After Life takes up the story of Teddy Todd — RAF pilot, husband of a childhood sweetheart, father to a clueless hippie, and brother of Ursula, the repeatedly reborn protagonist of the previous novel. Here Atkinson is more subtly postmodern, shifting between past, present, and future in ways both subversive and perfectly organic. Teddy’s unexpected survival of World War II and his safer, more ambivalent postwar life are revealed in carefully layered patches, showing that suspense can be about much more than what happens next.
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