FICTION
NOAH’S COMPASS
by Anne Tyler
(Knopf Doubleday, 288 pp., $25.95)
In Anne Tyler’s 18th novel, the unexceptional Liam Pennywell, a widowed schoolteacher, loses his job one day and wakes up in a hospital the next, with no recollection of the experience. Post-injury, he struggles with memory loss and learns to love. (Scheduled to be published in January.)
THE UNNAMED
by Joshua Ferris
(Little, Brown, 313 pp., $24.99)
A mysterious sporadic disorder causes successful lawyer Tim Farnsworth to start walking – and he doesn’t stop until the disorder vanishes, as randomly as it appeared. Meanwhile, his beloved wife, Jane, combats alcoholism and illness while trying to keep Tim in one piece. (January)
POINT OMEGA
by Don DeLillo
(Simon & Schuster, 128 pp., $24)
Filmmaker Jim Finley tracks down Richard Elster, a former war adviser living alone in the desert, to make a single-take, single-character documentary on Elster’s experience. Elster’s daughter Jessie appears weeks later, and the three bond until something disastrous happens. (February)
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