SIX-PACK

Thrillers, friendship dramas, and more new novels

THIS OTHER EDEN

Rendered by Paul Harding with meticulous precision, at the turn of the 20th century a socalled well-intentioned white missionary wreaks devastation on the integrated community living on an island off Maine's coast. (W.W. Norton & Company)

AGE OF VICE

The lives of a playboy heir to a dubiously obtained New Delhi fortune, his servant, and the journalist reporting on his family tangle in Deepti Kapoor's page-turner, which unfolds from a fatal car accident. (Riverhead)

I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU

A film professor returns to her New England boarding school—and reluctantly dredges up memories of a decades-old murder— in Rebecca Makkai's bewitching new book. (Viking)

VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

In Slate editor Dan Kois's big-hearted debut novel, a pair of unlikely friends grow up and apart in '90s New York, amid protests and the publishing industry. (Harper)

VICTORY CITY

Spanning 250 years, Salman Rushdie's epic follows the intertwined fates of a young woman who becomes a vessel for a goddess and the attempted feminist empire she creates. (Random House)

CENTRAL PLACES

From VF senior Vanities correspondent Delia Cai, a story of the push and pull of home: When Audrey Zhou visits her parents for the holidays, her past clashes with the person she thought she'd become. (Ballantine)

KEZIAH WEIR

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