The Lonely Hearts Hotel

The Lonely Hearts HotelTwo babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. One is a girl named Rose; the other, a boy named Pierrot. Each display rare gifts that bring them adoration and hatred. As they are made to travel around the city performing clown routines to raise funds for the orphanage, they make plans for a sensational future. They are separated as teenagers and sent off to work as menial servants, but both soon find themselves escaping into

Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes - both human and literary - that have long preoccupied him

delusional heroes and witchdoctors in polyester suits

to Jess's mingled horror and delight

and Divry's prose will remind readers of the best of Houellebecq

There is apparently no motive for the killing and no suspects are found

Every woman

They're Ant-Man and the Wasp - and it's your job to put the life into their microscopic world

Karen Olsson writes about the shape-shifting of our family relationships when outside forces work their way in - how Washington turns people into unnatural versions of themselves

and art from such luminaries as James Jean and Jill Bliss

from the comic strip adventurers of the Great Depression

James meets an intriguing woman from a previous century

except younger