11 excellent novels for summer reading

4. "The Astral," by Kate Christensen

(Doubleday, 320 pp.) When middle-aged poet Harry Quirk is thrown out by his wife (who’s mistakenly convinced he’s having an affair), he struggles to begin life again in his rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood. Kate Christensen is a gifted novelist who knows how to deliver the goods when it comes to ruefully funny, bittersweet character sketches. (June)

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