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| The Women on Platform Two by Laura AnthonyIn 2023, after a fight with her fiancé about having kids, Saoirse meets elderly Maura, who describes life when all contraception was illegal in Ireland. In 1969, Maura, her friend Bernie (who may be killed by another pregnancy), and other women push against the status quo in this timely dual timeline novel. Try this next: Heather Marshall's Looking for Jane or Dolen Perkins-Valdez's Take My Hand. |
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| I Leave It Up to You by Jinwoo ChongAfter 23 months in a coma, 30-year-old Jack Jr. awakens to a world where COVID exists, yet his fiancé, New York apartment, and advertising job are gone. Returning to Fort Lee, New Jersey, he works at his Korean American parents' sushi restaurant, spars with his brother, spends time with his nephew, and reconnects with his male nurse. Try this next: Caroline Leavitt's With or Without You.
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Three days in June
by Anne Tyler
As Gail navigates the chaos of her daughter Debbie's wedding preparations—including a job loss, exclusion from family events, and the unexpected arrival of her ex-husband Max—she faces a crisis that threatens the wedding and forces both parents to confront unresolved issues from their past.
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This is a love story : a novel
by Jessica Soffer
As Jane faces the end of her life, her husband Abe reflects on their 50 years together—revisiting their courtship, careers, family challenges, and estranged son, Max—while Central Park, a constant witness to their relationship, holds their memories in this tribute to love, loss and New York City.
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Beautiful world, where are you
by Sally Rooney
A novelist invites a warehouse worker on a trip to Rome while her best friend in Dublin slips back into a post-breakup flirtation with a childhood friend in the new novel by the author of Normal People.
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Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This 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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Lore Olympus. Volume one
by Rachel Smythe
Offers a contemporary retelling in graphic novel format of the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades
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Amazing Grace Adams
by Fran Littlewood
"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink-who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled-the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across London, armed with a ¹200 cake, to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Because today is the day she'll remind her daughter that no matter how far we fall, we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams used to be amazing. Her husband thought so. Her daughter thought so. Even Grace thought so. But everyone seems to have forgotten. Grace is about to remind them...and, most important, remind herself"
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| The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu; translated by Jesse KirkwoodIn a mysterious Tokyo shop, cats with special blankets are available for three-day rentals. Struggling people, some of whom aren't always easy to like, take cats home in these seven thought-provoking and open-ended stories, which provide an intriguing look at transitional times. Read-alike: Syou Ishida's We'll Prescribe You a Cat.
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Less : a novel
by Andrew Sean Greer
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his 50th birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself and making connections with the past. By the author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli. 50,000 first printing.
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