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| Unlikely Animals by Annie HartnettWhat happens: Emma leaves med school to care for her father in small-town New Hampshire. Emma's father Clive -- formerly a brilliant professor -- now contends with a fatal brain illness that causes whimsical hallucinations of animals (and the occasional ghost).
Reviewers say: "Hartnett masterfully balances a story of deep loss with the perfect amount of hilarity and tenderness" (Booklist).
Read it for: an ultimately uplifting father-daughter story, and a homey setting with Our Town vibes. |
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| Yerba Buena by Nina LaCourDelicious and healing: Yerba Buena is both an herb and the aptly named restaurant where Emilie and Sarah first meet. While their attraction to one another is clear, both must confront their troubled pasts to move forward.
What it is: a plot-driven multicultural love story that doesn't shy away from serious topics like infidelity and addiction.
Try this next: Zaina Arafat's You Exist Too Much. |
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| Young Mungo by Douglas StuartStar-crossed lovers: Fifteen-year olds Mungo and James reside in the same Glasgow neighborhood, but live in different worlds. Mungo's Protestant family is plauged by poverty and alcoholism. It's bad enough that Mungo must hide his true self -- worse that he's fallen for James, a Catholic.
Reviewers say: "Romantic, terrifying, brutal, tender, and, in the end, sneakily hopeful" (Kirkus Reviews).
What to read next? The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis. |
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| The Town of Babylon by Alejandro VarelaHometown drama: Gay Latino professor Andres attends his 20th high school reunion, where he encounters both his first love and the school's homophobic bully (now a store-front preacher).
What happens: Reeling from his husband's infidelity, Andres dallies with his old flame and confronts the bully-turned-minister about a decades-old hate crime.
Reviewers say: Publishers Weekly calls it "incandescent." |
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