Style and substance abound in this selection of smart bags and great fiction. Befitting the season, some are scary—but all are scary good.
‘Model Home’ by Rivers Solomon paired with Bottega Veneta’s Liberta bag
In Rivers Solomon’s haunting drama, Ezri and their sisters return to their parents’ house in the gated Dallas community where they were the only Black family and where an agonizing truth about the past awaits. (MCD)
‘A Reason to See You Again’ by Jami Attenberg paired with The Row’s mini Devon bag
From Jami Attenberg, doyen of absorbing family excavations, 37 years in the life of the Cohens: a closeted patriarch, his foundering widow, their daughters, poles apart. (Ecco)
‘Rejection’ by Tony Tulathimutte paired with Khaite’s Cate handbag
Obsessively readable, acerbic, Foster Wallace–inflected: In seven linked stories, Tony Tulathimutte’s characters—feminist incel, zealous start-up guy, spurned woman, rejected author—fail to connect. (William Morrow)
‘Intermezzo’ by Sally Rooney paired with Chanel’s vanity case
A chess prodigy in his early 20s and his brother, a 30-something lawyer, navigate various relationships (their own thorny one, plus complicated romances) in Sally Rooney’s compelling latest. (FSG)
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‘The Mighty Red’ by Louise Erdrich paired with Ferragamo’s Fiamma crossbody bag
Louise Erdrich sets her rich saga against the backdrop of the 2008 economic crash in North Dakota, where the teenage daughter of a woman trucker is set to marry a farming heir while wooed by another man. (Harper)
‘In the Distance’ by Hernan Diaz paired with Fendi’s Peekaboo soft handbag
Published in paperback by the indie Coffee House Press in 2017, Hernan Diaz’s best in show of an underdog debut—a surreal Western about a Swede’s adventures—appears in hardcover for the first time. (Riverhead)
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‘Blood Test’ by Charles Baxter paired with Miu Miu’s Arcadie bag
In an Ohio town beset by opioids, an insurance salesman learns that he’s genetically predisposed
to violent crime—and, to hilarious effect, finds himself barreling down a deadly path in Charles Baxter’s tender tale. (Pantheon)
‘The Empusium’ by Olga Tokarczuk paired with Chloé’s Bracelet bag
Olga Tokarczuk’s “Health Resort Horror Story” finds a young tuberculosis sufferer seeking treatment in the Silesian mountains, where questions of gender, class, and mysterious murders arise. (Riverhead)
Bags selected by Daisy Shaw-Ellis.