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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
A first novel by the award-winning author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds is written in the form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read about the impact of the Vietnam war on their family.
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| Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean KwokWhat happens: Though they're sisters, Sylvie Lee was raised in the Netherlands, while Amy Lee was raised in the U.S. When Sylvie goes missing, Amy begins to question everything she knows about her family.
For fans of: Celeste Ng's tragic family mystery Everything I Never Told You or Cristina Henriquez's immigrant story The Book of Unknown Americans. |
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Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory : Stories
by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
The creator of BoJack Horseman presents a debut collection of offbeat love stories that includes the tales of a wedding that is disrupted by mandated goat sacrifices and an up-and-coming rock band that manifests superpowers while drunk.
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Last Day
by Domenica Ruta
The fates of a cast of seemingly unconnected people, including a diverse crew of astronauts in space, converge during the celebration of an ancient holiday, in a thought-provoking first novel by the author of the memoir, With or Without You.
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| Patsy by Nicole Dennis-BennWhat it's about: Jamaican immigrant Patsy chose to leave her young daughter behind when she immigrated to the U.S. for a better life and the chance of rekindling a love affair with her best friend, Cicely. But Cicely has married and jobs are scarce for an undocumented immigrant.
Issues of note: motherhood, of course, as well as immigration, race, sexuality and gender -- and the limited choices of poor queer black women.
Read it for: complex characters, immersive writing, and a heartbreaking story. |
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Donna Has Left the Building
by Susan Jane Gilman
From the New York Times-best-selling author of Hypocrite in a Poufy White Dress offers a big-hearted novel about rebuilding life in the face of disaster. Leaving behind her family and her suburban home when her world implodes, forty-five-year-old Donna Koczynski sets off on a road trip to rebuild her life.
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The History of Living Forever
by Jake Wolff
Devastated when his teacher and crush bafflingly dies from an overdose, a senior-year chemistry student peruses his mentor's journals and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the Elixir of Life.
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