Excerpts galore: April 9, 2024

Literary Hub has been showering readers with excerpts in recent days.

Short War by Lily Meyer came out April 9.

The novel begins with an American teenager living in Chile whose love affair with a native Chilean is thwarted by a coup; it picks up decades later with the American's adult daughter seeking research redemption in Buenos Aires.

Here's the excerpt of Short War.

How To Get Along Without Me by Kate Axelrod comes out April 16.

The book is a collection of interconnected short stories that captures the struggle of dating in your twenties in a world designed for couples.

Here's the excerpt of How To Get Along Without Me.

The Limits by Nell Freudenberger came out April 9.

The novel follows Pia, the teenaged daughter of divorced parents whose biologist mother sends her away from French Polynesia and into the Manhattan home of her father, right before COVID's isolation hits.

Here's the excerpt of The Limits.

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare came out April 9.

This biography of the James Bond creator comes from an award-winning biographer who had "unprecedented access" to the Fleming family papers.

Here's the excerpt of Ian Fleming: The Complete Man.