February’s Reading group: Caribou Island by David Vann

This month’s title was drawn from a list of your favourite recent books - and it’s the first novel from the author of Legend of a Suicide

The hat has chosen Caribou Island by David Vann, a book the New York Times has called a “swift and beautifully written first novel” and one that “gets to places other novels can’t touch”. I’m thinking, however, that it may well be interestingly tricky. Plenty of other reviewers, including Patrick Ness in the Guardian, have described it as something of a third book, following on from his breakthrough novella and story collection, Legend of a Suicide and bestselling memoir A Mile Down.

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