Topic: Rion Amilcar Scott

“The Memory Police: A Novel” by Yōko Ogawa; “The World Doesn't Require You: Stories” by Rion Amilcar Scott; “Inland” by Téa Obreht; “Hollow Kingdom” by Kira Jane Buxton; “They Could Have Named Her Anything” by Stephanie Jimenez (Penguin Random House/Liveright/Grand Central Publishing/Little A)

Need to read: Hot new fiction in August

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens