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| All Fours by Miranda JulyStopping a solo cross-country road trip after 30 miles, a 45-year-old semi-famous California artist rethinks her life and marriage as she develops a connection with a younger man and remodels her motel room before heading home in this witty, weird, and sexy novel. Read-alikes: Milk Fed by Melissa Broder; The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie; Clover Hendry's Day Off by Beth Morrey. |
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| Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi RobinsonIn Kingston, Jamaica, 13-year-old Pumkin Patterson dreams of France. After her grandmother dies and her aunt moves to Paris, Pumkin lives with her neglectful mother and starts a baking business to earn money for French lessons. With authentic characters who sometimes speak in Jamaican dialect, this atmospheric first novel will please fans of If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery and Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson. |
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| Long Island by Colm TóibínThough she left Ireland over 20 years ago, Ellis Lacey still feels like an outsider in 1976 Long Island...especially when she discovers her husband has impregnated another man's wife. At a loss, she returns to Ireland to visit family and friends. Readers may know Ellis from the acclaimed 2009 novel Brooklyn, but this moving tale works fine as a standalone. Read-alikes: My Coney Island Baby by Billy O'Callaghan; The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott. |
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