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Here's what we're reading this fall...
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The Female Persuasion
by Meg Wolitzer
Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer--madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place--feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life. An electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be.
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Naturally Tan : A Memoir
by Tan France
In this heartfelt, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix's smash-hit Queer Eye, tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional Muslim family, as one of the few people of color in Doncaster, England. He illuminates his winding journey of coming of age, finding his voice (and style!), and how he finally came out to his family at the age of 34, revealing that he was happily married to the love of his life- a Mormon cowboy from Salt Lake City. In Tan's own words, "The book is meant to spread joy, personal acceptance, and most of all understanding. Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be."
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Night Soil
by Dale Peck
Pathologically shy (or maybe just pathological), the teenaged Judas retreats into a world of anonymous sexual encounters at a roadside rest area, although what he really longs for is a relationship with one of the boys at the private school he attends, founded by Judas’s grandfather. Driven by both lust and a desire to understand his mother, Judas dives deeper into his family’s history, and the Academy’s, until he uncovers a series of secrets that causes him to question everything he thought he knew about his world.
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The Sunlight Pilgrims
by Jenni Fagan
In a near-future world that is succumbing to an ice age, London residents evacuate for warmer temperatures in the south. But not Dylan. Grieving, he heads north to bury the ashes of his mother and grandmother in the Scottish islands where they once lived.
In the snowy, mountainous Highlands, Constance scrapes by, preparing for a record-breaking winter with her 12-year old daughter Stella, who was until recently, her son-- and the community struggles to accept Stella's new identity. When Dylan arrives in their caravan park in the middle of the night, life changes course for them all. A visionary story of courage and resilience in the midst of nature's most violent hour.
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