GRABBERS

A Selection of First Sentences from New Books

Until the fire, nobody much cared for the McCrutchens.

“The Sadness of Beautiful Things,” stories by Simon Van Booy My father’s parole officer had an office above a shoe store in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

“Gone So Long,” a novel by Andre Dubus III This book would not have been written had Donald J. Trump not been elected president in November 2016.

“Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment,” by Francis Fukuyama