A coming-of-age tale of Homeric Odysseian proportions, A Real Animal is a typhonic stunner of a debut. If Lily King wrote the screenplay for an Ari Aster film, it would look ALMOST something like A Real Animal, but it is also totally original. Not one to miss.
A Real Animal by Emeline Atwood, (List Price: $29, Catapult, 9781646222964, July 2026)
Reviewed by Dominic, Book & Bottle in St. Petersburg, FL
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The sentences in this book move like millipedes, a thousand legs scratching at your eyes and your brain, burrowing deep and never leaving. This jagged psychological novel is an exquisite puzzle, every piece slipping into place both fondly and grotesquely. We are in the presence of a master.
Body Double by Hanna Johansson, (List Price: $27, Catapult, 9781646223138, April 2026)
Reviewed by Dominic, Book + Bottle in Saint Petersburg, Florida
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Japanese Gothic is a blood-soaked slice of a blade too fast; a read-in-one-sitting experience that chills you to the hilt. Superb in every way.
Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker, (List Price: $30, Hanover Square Press, 9781335001559, April 2026)
Reviewed by Dominic, Book + Bottle in Saint Petersburg, Florida
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Don’t let the title fool you – you haven’t heard this one before. Kristen Arnett pratfalls her way into our hearts with a more gay, more unhinged, more Florida version of a John Hughes movie of a book. The absurdity only makes the characters more real. Sometimes, being funny is serious business. This novel treats it as such.
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett, (List Price: $28, Riverhead Books, 9780593719770, March 2025)
Reviewed by Dominic Howarth, Book + Bottle in St. Petersburg, Florida
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