Memory Wall, by Anthony Doerr
This Dave Eggers-endorsed collection of globe-hopping stories is worth picking up for the heartbreaking title novella alone. In it, a senile woman undergoes an experimental treatment that allows her to vividly relive events from her past.
[Scribner, $24]
The Four Fingers of Death, by Rick Moody
The Ice Storm author and Details contributor goes meta in this satire of a broken, and just plain broke, near-future America, told as a B-movie novelization (flesh-eating bacteria from space!) penned by a no-name hack.
[Little, Brown, $26]
My Life as a Russian Novel, by Emmanuel Carrère
Recalling Hitchcock and Calvino, this dark, erotic memoir follows Carrère as he heads to Russia to make a documentary about a forgotten World War II vet while obsessing over a nascent love affair in Paris.
[Metropolitan, $25]
Off the Grid, by Nick Rosen
In this surprisingly seductive account, the British journalist travels America from the Carolinas to California and meets gunwielding survivalists, communal-farming hippies, and pot-growing criminals who've escaped the rat race by dropping out entirely.
[Penguin, $15]
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