Advocate Bookshelf: Tiny Tomes

  Touch by Henri Cole ($23, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Another author who gets better with each book, Pulitzer Prize finalist Henri Cole has a new novel that vacillates between extremes, innocence and violent self-condemnation, intellect and emotions, the erotic and the elegiac. Love, death, and memory are all touchstones that Cole describes with unusual power. FSGBooks.com