SIX PACK

Stories of siblings, star-crossed love, and more new fiction

THE PASSENGER

"He is in love with his sister," writes Cormac McCarthy in the first of two novels out this fall, this one focusing on a salvage diver dredging a mysteriously downed plane. "But of course it gets worse." (Knopf)

FLIGHT

Assembling for the first Christmas since their mother's death, a set of adult siblings and their families unpack old wounds and vie over inheritance plans in Lynn Steger Strong's anticipated new novel. (Mariner)

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC

TIME Kevin Wilson's PICNIC ... bighearted novel centers on a pair of Tennessee high schoolers whose small-town art prank gains national attention and a life of its own. (Ecco)

TOAD

From the late Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love, the story of pensive recluse Sally KATHERINE DUNN Gunnar as she looks back on her youth in the counterculture of 1960s Portland, Oregon. (MCD)

THE FOGHORN ECHOES

In Danny Ramadan's split narrative, following a tragedy the lives of two Syrian teens unfurl and diverge—Hussam as an out gay man in Vancouver; Wassir alone in Damascus. (Canongate)

SAHA

A murder mystery unfolds against the backdrop of a dystopian class-based society in this strong sophomore novel from National Book Award finalist Cho Nam-Joo. (Liveright)

KEZIAH WEIR

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