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You just made it through one of the hardest, weirdest winters on record.
Dont you deserve a little pleasure?
Cornelia Channing
I am going to survive prison.
I am going to create a beautiful life for myself … Ashley, your father is coming home.
Vivid and vulnerable, the effortless dialogue and beautifully woven narratives throughoutSomebodys Daughtermakes the memoir read almost like fiction.
Flyn roams across these accidental experiments in rewilding and reports back on what she finds amid the rubble.
Based loosely on Leo Tolstoys story suiteThe Sevastopol Sketches, Fraias book offers up three glancingly linked stories.
But when mysterious notes begin to appear on Nellas desk LEAVE WAGNER.
NOW suddenly everyone in the office, including Hazel, becomes a potential foe.
Thats how much wildness Lake has packed into less than 300 pages.
This is a taste of what it means for a novel to give zero fucks.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, whos the sluttiest New York loca of them all?
(Its now one of the worlds most fashionable zip codes.)
The comics in this book are fantastic: innovative, incisive, layered, and most importantlyblazingly funny.
(Its nowsyndicated on the Cut.)
How do we grow confident in our identities?
(They also published a YA novel calledPetin 2019.
Each letter is fiery and diamond-hard, written by a once-in-a-generation voice.
Why the obsession, then?
Buried inside that question is the mystery of this deadpan novel by one of Japans most lauded young writers.
Molly Young
There are two things Joan knows about herself: She is depraved, and shes a survivor.
Instead, she ends up coming face-to-face with her traumatic past.
Alissa Walker
New York is back, baby!
The book is a wispy and meditative travelogue of sorts that traverses memory and place.
(Keep the change, ya filthy animal.)
Anne-Marie is an aging, lonely actress who worries she might be losing her marbles.
This novel reminds us that dreams are sometimes more precious than the real thing.
Each one is bursting with small, explosive moments, like fireworks illuminating the bareness of the protagonists lives.
Another character thinks, To become truly happy … is to betray the unhappy person you used to be.
Sestanovich is a skilled craftswoman, each sentence a carefully positioned tile in a mosaic.
Hillary Kelly
Most histories of American abstraction begin in the 1930s with artists like Jackson Pollock or Alexander Calder.
A page-turner whose dense, fantastical atmosphere lingers long after the read.
The illustrations are muted, delicately rendered images of people cloistered in apartments or wandering through empty urban landscapes.
In one, fingers peek warily out from behind a drawn window blind.
Loneliness lives in the gap.Cornelia Channing
Calling all Rachel Cuskheads and W.G.
Alissa Walker
No one explores the twists of female relationships like crime writer Megan Abbott.
Set inside the cutthroat world of an upper-crust ballet school, its likeFlowers in the Atticbut with pointe shoes.
Tara Abell
Kleemans second novel is an eco-thriller of sorts.
Arezu, an Iranian American teenager, travels to Spain to meet her estranged father.
Instead, she finds Omar, a 40-year-old Lebanese man with whom she begins a disorienting affair.
Two decades later, Arezu returns with a friend, determined to make sense of what happened to her.
The prose is propulsive, erotic, and darkly dreamlike, recalling the early novels of Marguerite Duras.
A tart and spare palate cleanser tucked into the feast of summer beach reads.
Tara Abell
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