What is the best novel you recently read and would recommend?
I'm looking for some fine fiction, a book to enjoy, not some pseudo-intellectual shit nor vapid dross.
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Little, Big by John Crowley. It's a very pleasant, enjoyable, engaging read. Very 100AdS-esque with magical realism and a focus on multiple generations of a family with deep connections to the waning "magic" of their world that employs occasional metaficitonal techniques to good effect.
That's super reductive and maybe not an enticing description. It's not as derivative as I'm making it seem. Please read it it was really good.
Read the sound and the fury. Possibly the great american novel, certainly the best southern novel ever. It can get hard to follow at times, but the themes aren't too difficult to grasp.
The Bathtub's Music: A Novel (2015) by Angela Kim. Lyrical, heartbreaking, deeply felt.