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This Week's Fiction Must-Reads

Kristin Yinger |
September 9, 2011 | 2:38 p.m. PDT

Books Editor

Pick up Chad Harbach's "Fielding" this week (Little, Brown, and Company)
Pick up Chad Harbach's "Fielding" this week (Little, Brown, and Company)

Wunderkind: A Novel
By: Nikolai Grozni
(Free Press, Hardcover, $24)

At a high-school for music in late 1980s Bulgaria, a rebellious and gifted pianist struggles against the Communist confines on his life and finds an escape—and maybe his redemption—through music.
(Sept. 6)

Blueprints For Building Better Girls: Fiction
By: Elissa Schappell
(Simon & Schuster, Hardcover, $24)

Schappell’s eight intertwining stories of archetypal women tackle interesting and sometimes unspoken experiences of evolving female identity in a darkly humorous fashion.
(Sept. 6)

The Art of Fielding: A Novel
By: Chad Harbach
(Little, Brown, and Company, Hardcover, $25)

This debut novel by Harbach promises to be about much more than baseball when a college baseball star with major-league dreams throws a ball way off target and ends up changing the fates of five people who are all wrestling with their own demons.
(Sept. 7)

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