REQUIRED READING

Seven Days of Us Francesca Hornak (f iction, Berkley) Hilarity/tension ensues when a family is forced to spend a weeklong quarantine holed up together at Weyfield Hall, their aging country estate in the English countryside. Tensions are high already, but when an unexpected guest shows up, all issues are forced out into the open.pen. Logical Family: A Memoir Armistead Maupin (nonfiction, HarperCollins) Maupin chronicles his life from his conservative Southern upbringing through the success of his iconic LGBT “Tales of the City” book series. His own revealing true tales include experiencing “homoerotic horseplay” in the Vietnam-era Navy; workingng for anti-antigay, pre-senatorial Jesse Helms at a North Carolina TV station; meeting Rock Hudson in a power outage; and becoming a “surreal” part of Richard Nixon’s infamous Oval Office tapes. The Last Mrs. Parrish Liv Constantine (f iction, Harper) Amber Patterson has big plans, and stealing Daphne Parrish’s husband is at the top of the list. While Amber lives in a tiny apartment and earns a small salary in a real-estate office, Daphne has it all: looks, wealth, a handsome husband and a beautiful home. Amber slowly insinuatestes herself into Daphne’s life, befriending her and setting her scheme into motion. If you like your thrillers with an unexpected twist, this one’s for you. The Floating World C. Morgan Babst (f iction, Algonquin Books) A novel set in Hurricane Katrinaera New Orleans, where the reader is introduced to the Boisdores, who have lived in the city for generations. As the hurricane approaches, the family’s eldest daughter refuses to evacuate, forcing her parents to leaveave without her and setting into motion a chain of events that will haunt them all. Paris in the Present Tense Mark Helprin (f iction, Overlook Press) Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour is a widower and cellist still grappling with the loss of his wife. His grandson has leukemia and will die unless he receives treatments — which neither Jules nor his daughter can afford. Jules’ luck turns when he is commissioned to write “telephonelephone hold music” and is paid handsomely for it but, alas, complications arise. From the bestselling author of “A Winter’s Tale” and “A Soldier of the Great War.” Billionaire at the Barricades Laura Ingraham (nonfiction, St. Martin’s) Ingraham explores how President Trump remade the Reagan Revolution in his own image and takes a look at some of the defining moments of a populist movement decades in the making — while also pointing out some pitfalls that could exist for Trump’s populist agenda. a.