Chris Hewitt

“Waiting on a Friend” is Natalie Adler's first novel but, already, I'd argue she can do what greats like Ann Patchett Patrick Ryan and Celeste Ng do.

“Waiting on a Friend” is Natalie Adler's first novel but, already, I'd argue she can do what greats like Ann Patchett Patrick Ryan and Celeste Ng do.

Featuring something new from the novelist behind “Hamnet,” blood-and-guts and the Kelce brothers' literary debut.

MINNEAPOLIS — Conventional wisdom is that members of Gen Z are on their phones 24-7. But once or twice a week, Abraham Teuber can't wait to put his down.

“Waiting on a Friend” is Natalie Adler’s first novel but, already, I’d argue she can do what greats like Ann Patchett, Patrick Ryan and Celeste Ng do.

There are books you read and think might have been created just for you. There are the books you can’t wait to discuss with your book club. And then there are books you read and think, “Just about every reader I know would love this.”

How entertaining is “City of Iron and Ivy”? I didn’t particularly respond to a key element of the book but I loved it, anyway.

Like Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s just-published “Lake Effect,” bestselling writer Tom Perrotta’s “Ghost Town” is about life in the suburbs in the 1970s.

There are books you read and think might have been created just for you. There are the books you can't wait to discuss with your book club. And then there are books you read and think, "Just about every reader I know would love this."