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| We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna BervoetsStarring: Kayleigh, content moderator for a social media platform owned by an unnamed megacorporation.
What happens: she finds a girlfriend, likes her co-workers, and finds purpose in removing extreme, violent online content. However, hours of viewing the worst the internet has to offer soon begs the question: what is "normal," anyway?
Read (or watch) next: Bandwidth by Eliot Peper (novel), The Social Dilemma (docudrama). |
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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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Trust by Hernán DíazWhat it is: Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930s New York City. Media tie-in: Look for an upcoming limited series starring (and produced by) Kate Winslet on HBO. |
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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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| Mustique Island by Sarah McCoyCo-starring: former beauty queen and divorcée Willy May Michael and Mustique Island, a star-studded party place for the 1970s rich and infamous.
When the party's over: The scene gets heavy after Willy May's two adult daughters arrive -- would-be model Hilly quickly overindulges in island vices, and Joanne steps in to pull Hilly up by her strappy platform sandals.
Enjoy... surprisingly heartfelt lessons about family, loyalty, and resilience -- with notes of Bacardi and suntan oil.
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| Scarlet in Blue by Jennifer MurphyWhat it's about: A mother (Scarlet Lake) and daughter (Blue) adopt aliases by choosing a crayon each time they move to escape a dangerous pursuer known only as "HIM."
Stay or go? Blue tires of stifling her musical talent and suspects that their "stalker" is a no more than a delusion resulting from her mother's schizophrenia.
Read this next: Violaine Huisman's The Book of Mother. |
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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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Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia ArmfieldWhat happens: Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. By turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under the Sea is a genre-bending exploration of the depths of love and grief at the heart of a marriage. Critical buzz: Named as book to look out for in 2022 by Guardian, i-D, Autostraddle, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Stylist and DAZED. For fans of: Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer and Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. |
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