Today we continue to look at first sentences, from Contemporary or Literary Fiction genres.
Here are the possibilities:
- "The King stood in a pool of blue light." Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandil
- "Where the reservation boundary invisibly bisected a stand of deep bush - chokecherry, popple, stunted oak - Landreaux waited." LaRose by Louise Erdich
- "Carla heard the car coming before it topped the little rise in the road that around here they call a hill." Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro
- "My dear friend Roz Horowitz met her new husband online dating, and Roz is three years older and fifty pounds hearvier than I am, and people have said that she is generally not that well preserved, and so I thought I would try it even though I avoid going online too much." Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
- "China turned on herself." Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
- "I like to think I know what death is." Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- "Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down." Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- "Varya is thirteen." The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin