Immaculate Blue — Paul Russell

From the award-winning author of "The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov" comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel "Immaculate Blue," which explores the lives of four people Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in upstate New York, the novel follows these characters as they achieve their aims in lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union and alienation. Russell picks up the thread of his critically acclaimed novel "The Salt Point" 20 years later and tracks the lives of these friends, some of whom not only lost touch with each other but have also lost their way. Moving, at times shocking, and always memorable, "Immaculate Blue" points to where the personal and the political come together and shape our lives in unexpected ways. With this newest novel, Paul Russell reminds us of why he is one of the most important voices on the literary scene.