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Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker
In cartographically precise prose, Claire Keegan's WALK THE BLUE FIELDS (Black Cat) charts the emotional terrain of an Ireland both nostalgic and new, through characters whose desires strain the confines of village life. Uwem Akpan's searing SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM (Little, Brown) captures a ravaged Africa through the dry-eyed gaze of children trying to maintain a sense of normalcy amid chaos. America's pursuit of the "right" way to live drives Julie Hecht's HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU (Simon & Schuster), a series of satiric outtakes about an endearingly neurotic Nantucket photographer who fears eating meat nearly as much as she abhors ...