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| Martyr! by Kaveh AkbarAs a kid, Cyrus moved from Iran to Indiana with his dad after the plane his mother was on was accidentally shot down by the U.S. military. Now nearly 30 and recovering from addiction, Cyrus' obsession with martyrs leads him to a dying artist in Brooklyn. Booklist says, "Akbar creates scenes of psychedelic opulence and mystery, emotional precision, edgy hilarity, and heart-ringing poignancy as his characters endure war, grief, addiction, and sacrifice, and find refuge in art and love. Bedazzling and profound." |
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| You Only Call When You're in Trouble by Stephen McCauleyStephen McCauley's character-driven latest introduces Tom, a Boston architect with money issues whose partner has just left him; his flighty sister, Dorothy, who's trying to open a self-help retreat in Woodstock; and her 34-year-old college professor daughter, Cecily, who's facing a Title IX investigation. For fans of: The Celebrants by Steven Rowley. |
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The American daughters : a novel
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Ady, when she's separated from her mother, meets Lenore, a free black woman who invites her to join a clandestine society of spies called the Daughters, setting her on a journey toward liberation and imagining a new future.
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| Held by Anne MichaelsBeginning with John, an English soldier in 1917 France, and then visiting him again several years later in Yorkshire where he's running a photography studio, this leisurely paced, poetic novel follows him and generations of his family from the early 1900s to 2025. Reviewers call it: a "masterpiece" (Publishers Weekly); "exquisite, deeply moving" (Booklist). |
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| Hard by a Great Forest by Leo VardiashviliAs a child, Saba fled civil war in the former Soviet republic of Georgia for London. Nearly 20 years later, his father and brother return to the war-torn country and disappear. Using cryptic clues they've left behind, Saba searches for them in this lyrical, mystical, and funny debut. Don't miss the references to fairy tales and classics. |
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Acts of forgiveness : a novel
by Maura Cheeks
A single mother is surprised when her family blocks her from uncovering her family's ancestry, past and secrets while trying to prove she was descended from slaves in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. "Cheeks seamlessly threads the themes of resentment, forgiveness, and legacy through the multilayered narrative. Readers will be moved." (Publishers Weekly)
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A fire so wild : a novel
by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
As a wildfire threatens to engulf Berkeley, California, the city's residents, both rich and poor, are forced to confront the social and economic inequities that plague their community. "Ruiz-Grossman balances the social and political, the emotional and physical, with insight and precision. Her disparate characters all hail from different worlds, and it’s a horrific thrill to witness their dramas unfurl and collide." (New York Review of Books)
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Redwood court : fiction
by DâeLana R. A. Dameron
Mika Tabor, the baby of the family, learns important lessons from the people who raise her: her hardworking parents, her older sister, her retired grandparents and the community on Redwood Court, who are committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall. This is the February 2024 selection for Reese's Book Club.
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