Ducks, NewburyportAn utterly original novel, longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, in which one woman navigates, through a compelling inner monologue, the tension and disquiet of contemporary America. An Ohio mother bakes pies while the world bombards her with radioactivity and fake facts. She worries about her children, caramelisation, chickens, guns, tardigrades, medical bills, environmental disaster, mystifying confrontations at the supermarket, and the best time to