Everyone loves a long, immersive novel you can sink into for weeks at a time _ witness the popularity of heavy-hitters such as Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" or Garth Risk Hallberg's "City on Fire." But sometimes you just need a quick fiction hit _ a slim, satisfying novel you can read in a weekend and then move on. Here are some recommendations, all fewer than 200 pages long.
'LAST NIGHT IN NUUK' BY NIVIAQ KORNELIUSSEN
This book, the "Cat Person" of Greenland, gives an un-Photoshopped view of the lives of young people wrestling with their sexuality and their claustrophobic small town of a country. After winning a prestigious short story prize when the author was 22, then being published as a book, "Last Night in Nuuk" sold double the number of copies required to become a bestseller in Greenland _ 2000, instead of 1,000. Each of five entangled characters gets a chance at the mic _ a gay journalist in hiding from scandal; his sister, who's leaving her husband; a lesbian couple on the rocks; a bisexual party girl addicted to trouble. Lacing the narrative are journal entries, letters, texts and hashtags. Translated by Anna Halager. (Black Cat, $16 paper) _ Marion Winik
