100 Notable Books of 2020 (Published 2020)

By Riku Onda. Translated by Alison Watts. $14.95. Paperback. Bitter Lemon. Onda’s strange, engrossing novel — patched together from scraps of interviews, letters, newspaper articles and the like — explores the sweltering day that 17 members of the Aosawa family died after drinking poisoned sake and …