By Washington Post Book Critic Ron Charles
As soon as the ravs up in summer, there are three quiet new novels, and there is a work of history which is more forest than the story!
Simon & Shoaster 
Lucas Shefer’s first novel, “Slip,” Austin takes place in and around a boxing gym in Texas, where everyone is trying to become someone different.
After two white teenagers – one obsessed with his African American mentor, discovered their transgender identity to the other – this is sweaty, comic masterpiece jumps into the ring with our most pressure social debate, and gives land to a knockout.
Read a fraction: “The Slip” by Lucas Shefer
“Slip” Available through Lucas Shefer (Simon & Shoaster), in hardcover, eBook and audio formats, Heroic, Barns and noble And Bookshop.org
Penguin press 
At the beginning of Mitchell Hanwen “Bug hollow,” The most beloved, the most clever son who can ask any parents, graduated from high school and has gone with his friends for a week -long road trip.
But what begins as a domestic comedy soon becomes a tragedy, and Hunven takes his gracious eyes the way the way shattered, and even when it grows.
Read a fraction: “Bag Holll” by Michelle Hanwen
“Bug hollow” Available through Mitchell Hanwen (Penguin Press), in hardcover, eBook and audio formats, Heroic, Barns and noble And Bookshop.org
Scribener 
In “Satisfaction Cafe,” Kathy Wang, a woman from Taiwan, makes her way in America with a new novel, a new novel by Kathy Wang.
For decades, she struggles to fit with a complex, rich family, until she eventually can create a slightly safe place, where people can find what they really want: just to be heard.
Read a fraction: “The Satisfaction Cafe” by Kathy Wang
“Satisfaction Cafe” Available through Kathy Wang (Scribon), in hardcover, eBook and audio formats, Heroic, Barns and noble And Bookshop.org
Atria/one signal 
A century ago, Western scientists knew almost nothing about the huge panda. Now, in an exciting work of history, Nathalia follows the sons, tedes and keemats of Holt Teddy Roosevelt, as they set with a team for China to track these black and white organisms.
How will brother avoid this treacherous campaign? And what would be the implications for these soft animals? Holt examines these attractive questions and others “Animals in clouds.”
Read a fraction: “The Beast in the Clouds” by Nathalia Holt
“The Beast in the Clouds: to find the fatal discovery of The Roosevelt Brothers to find mythological veteran panda” Nathalia is available through Holt (Atria/Forest Signal), in hardcover, eBook and audio formats, Heroic, Barns and noble And Bookshop.org
This is for the book report. For these and other suggestions about what to read in this summer, talk with your local bookseller or librarian.
I am Ron Charles. By next time, read!
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