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| Among Friends by Hal EbbottTwo wealthy men who’ve been friends since college gather at one’s New York country home to celebrate his 52nd birthday, bringing along their wives and teenage daughters. But tension, envy, and a devastating action reverberate afterward. Exploring male friendship and duality, this buzzy debut literary novel is "subtle, keenly intelligent, psychologically deft -- and deeply grim" (Kirkus Reviews). For fans of: John Cheever. |
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| People Like Us by Jason MottJason Mott follows up his National Book Award-winning Hell of a Book with this funny, moving, and surreal tale of two Black writers pondering race, loss, and survival. One of them, who specializes in grief, is at a Minnesota college where a shooting recently occurred, and the other, who just won a big award, is on a book tour in Europe. Try this next: Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour. |
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The Road to Tender Hearts
by Annie Hartnett
PJ Halliday is a 63-year-old hoarder who drinks too much. When he learns his old high school girlfriend is newly single, he sets out on a cross-country road trip from Massachusetts to Arizona, bringing along his newly orphaned grandniece and grandnephew, his 26-year-old daughter, and Pancakes, a death-predicting cat. Funny and bittersweet, this novel works for fans of Steven Rowley's The Guncle and Kevin Wilson's Run for the Hills.
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| Bring the House Down by Charlotte RuncieAt the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, critic Alex Lyons pens a devastating review of Hayley Sinclair's one-woman act. He then sleeps with her just before it’s published. In retaliation, she turns her show into “The Alex Lyons Experience,” where she and others detail his misdeeds. Narrated by Alex’s coworker, a struggling new mom whose husband may be having an affair, this witty, compelling tale explores art, gender, power, and identity. For fans of: Mona Awad’s All’s Well. |
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The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
In a near future where the Risk Assessment Administration uses data to prevent future crimes, Sara Hussein is arrested after a dream-analysis algorithm indicates she'll harm her husband. Held at a retention center, she's losing hope she'll ever be freed when a newcomer upends everything. Perfect for book clubs (it's already a Read with Jenna pick), this gripping latest by a Pulitzer Prize finalist will please fans of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars.
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| The Satisfaction Café by Kathy WangHaving left Taiwan in the 1970s to attend Stanford graduate school, Joan marries a fellow student, but that lasts mere weeks. She stays in California, unexpectedly drawn to a wealthy, thrice-divorced older man. They marry, and in this quietly powerful portrait, Joan becomes a stepmother, a mother, a widow, and the owner of café designed to combat loneliness. For fans of: The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin; Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum. |
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| The Rabbit Club by Christopher J. YatesAlistair McCain, an 18-year-old from California, has never met his British rock star father. Starting at Oxford, he hopes to finally do so and to be accepted into a secret society he’s heard about at the university. While his lineage gets him an invite, he soon suspects the group may be involved in murder in this suspenseful and entertaining read. Try this next: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. |
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| Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie YeeOur unnamed narrator learns her husband is leaving her for his coworker Maggie. So, when she’s told she has cancer days later, she names the tumor Maggie, too. Not telling her ex any of this, she gets help from her best friend and shares her Chinese mother’s mythological tales with her kids. Depicting resilience and heart, this moving first novel is liberally peppered with humor. Read-alike: Catherine Newman's We All Want Impossible Things. |
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