What do you recommend?

“I just read Kelly Link’s Get In Trouble, and it’s awesome. She’s a master, really great. I also loved A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin — it’s so good! She’s so raw and funny. It’s gallows humor, and her writing is sharp sharp sharp. She died in the ’90s so it feels as if you’re making this friend you’ll never be able to talk to again. I also loved the new Joy Williams collection, The Visiting Privilege. Reading her voice repeating over and over again showed me distinct she is.”

Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies

Groff appears at 6 p.m. Nov. 20 as part of the National Book Award winners and finalists event and 3 p.m. Nov. 22 with Bill Clegg and Sloane Crosley at Miami Book Fair, Miami Dade College Wolfson Auditorium, 300 NE Second Ave.

This story was originally published November 5, 2015 at 8:06 AM with the headline "What do you recommend?."