Rotten with perfection : Kim Edwards, The secrets of a fire king -- Fiction and the Unabomber : Susan Choi, A person of interest -- Blowback : André Dubus III, House of sand and fog -- Falling woman : André Dubus III, The garden of last days -- Pictures from a revolution : Dalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz -- Updike's many worlds : local and global in Toward the end of time -- The Black Atlantic as dystopia : Bernardine Evaristo, Blonde roots -- Disaster utopias : Chitra Divakaruni, One amazing thing.
