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| Save What's Left by Elizabeth CastellanoThe beginning: When her husband, Tom, wants a break and sets out on a world cruise alone, middle-aged Kathleen Deane leaves Kansas for a New York coastal town and her own fresh start.
A new house: She arrives to find a massive modern monstrosity that breaks regulations being built next to the tiny cottage she's bought sight unseen. She teams up with a neighbor to fight town hall, and then Tom shows up in an Airstream that he parks in her driveway.
Read this next: Tara Conklin's Community Board, Amy Fusselman's The Means, or Beck Dorey-Stein's Rock the Boat. |
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| Sun House by David James DuncanWhat it's about: Taking place over the course of many years, this nearly 800-page humorous epic ponders life, death, and spirituality, and features a large cast of characters, including an actor, a Jesuit, the victim of a violent assault, a folk singer, a woman learning Sanskrit, and others.
The first line: "Extremely implausible accidents do not feel innocent."
Author buzz: While this is the long-awaited third novel from David James Duncan after the bestsellers The River Why (1983) and The Brothers K (1992), he's also published short story and essay collections. |
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Tom Lake : a novel
by Ann Patchett
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born.
A Reese's Book Club Pick
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| The Apartment by Ana MenéndezWelcome to... The Helene, a 1940s art deco apartment building in South Miami Beach.
The people in 2B: Over seven decades, this apartment has had multiple residents, from Texas newlyweds to a troubled Vietnam veteran, and these interlinked tales showcase them all. But the book lingers longest on the latest to dwell there, a young Cuban woman.
Why you might like it: Featuring richly drawn characters and elegant writing, The Apartment examines memory, community, loneliness, and what makes a home. |
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The invisible hour : a novel
by Alice Hoffman
One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community—an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her? As a girl Mia fell in love with a book. Now as a young woman she falls in love with a brilliant writer as she makes her way back in time. But what if Nathaniel Hawthorne never wrote The Scarlet Letter ? And what if Mia Jacob never found it on the day she planned to die?
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Happiness falls : a novel
by Angie Kim
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • When a father goes missing, his family’s desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another in this thrilling page-turner, a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the award-winning author of Miracle Creek.
Finalist for the New American Voices Award • “This is a story with so many twists and turns I was riveted through the last page.”—Jodi Picoult
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