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| Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThis long-awaited latest by the author of Americanah centers on four African women in America. Nigerian travel writer Chiamaka isolates alone in the Maryland suburbs during COVID, pondering her exes. Meanwhile her Washington, D.C. lawyer best friend longs for marriage, her practical cousin starts an MBA program, and her beloved housekeeper is sexually assaulted by a powerful man. Read-alikes: Nikki May's This Motherless Land; Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi's Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions. |
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| Deep Cuts by Holly BrickleyTwo music-obsessed college students meet at a bar in 2000. Songwriter Joe asks our opinionated narrator, Percy, to critique his work, sparking a creative partnership that propels Joe toward indie-rock stardom over the next decade while Percy rethinks not asking for songwriting credit. Fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & the Six will want to try this atmospheric debut that's a love letter to music. |
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| Theft by Abdulrazak GurnahThis acclaimed latest from 2021 Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah follows three interlinked young people navigating uncertain futures in Tanzania: Karim, whose mother left his abusive father when he was three; beautiful Fauzia, who'd been sick as a child; and Badar, who was sent to work as a servant boy in his uncle's household. "Gurnah is at the top of his game," raves Publishers Weekly. |
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| Twist by Colum McCannIn 2019, off the west coast of Africa, Irish writer Anthony Fennell plans a longform article about the people who mend underwater fiber optic cables to keep the internet going. But there's danger ahead for Fennell, his fellow Irishman captain, and the captain's Black actor girlfriend, who's in England for a job. This lyrical latest by Colum McCann is "another astounding novel from a fiction master" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghyOn a remote island between Australia and Antarctica, widowed dad Dominic and his three kids live in an old lighthouse and try to keep a United Nations seed vault safe. During a powerful storm caused by climate change, a mysterious woman washes ashore, changing all of their lives in this suspenseful tale. Read-alikes: Jessie Greengrass' The High House; Eiren Caffall's All the Water in the World. |
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| The Dollhouse Academy by Margarita MontimoreAn exclusive, secretive boarding school for actors, the Dollhouse Academy has been the home of 34-year-old megastar Ivy Gordon since she was a teen, and she's desperate to leave. New to the academy are Ramona and her best friend Grace, but life there isn't what the girls imagined. Narrated by Ivy and Ramona, this riveting dark academia novel by the author of Oona Out of Order shines a light on celebrity. |
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| The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson WalkerPresented as a doctor's case study notes and as letters written by the subject to her young son, this thought-provoking, slow-burn novel focuses on single Brooklyn mom Jane, who'd previously had a strong memory but now suffers from amnesia and hallucinations. Her psychiatrist, who has his own troubles, looks for answers in this "haunting and sublime" (Booklist) tale. |
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