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• My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  Moshfegh, Ottessa,

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  "Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let's Call Her Barbie

  Rosen, Renée,

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  "She's an icon. She's fun and aspirational. She's stirring controversy and outrage. Her name is Barbie. In 1956, Ruth Handler, cofounder of a budding toy company, embarks on a mission to upend the marketplace by creating a controversial doll: one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

  Stories

  Fu, Kim,

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  "In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

  a Novel

  Aoyama, Michiko, 1970-

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  "What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dinner

  Koch, Herman, 1953-

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  Meeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Convenience Store Woman

  Murata, Sayaka, 1979-

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  "Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Crawdads Sing

  Owens, Delia,

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  "For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Normal People

  a Novel

  Rooney, Sally,

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  "At school, Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Little Liar

  a Novel

  Albom, Mitch, 1958-

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  Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Atmospherians

  a Novel

  McElroy, Isle

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  "Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lightning Bottles

  Stapley, Marissa,

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  "He was the troubled face of rock 'n' roll...until he suddenly disappeared without a trace. Jane Pyre was once one half of one of the most famous rock 'n' roll duos in the world, the Lightning Bottles. Years later, she's perhaps the most hated--and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Weeds

  Smith, Katy Simpson, 1985-

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  A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When I Sing, Mountains Dance

  a Novel

  Solà, Irene,

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  A spellbinding novel that places one family's tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself. Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to "reel off his verses…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Demon Copperhead

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara,

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  Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenage single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remarkably Bright Creatures

  a Novel

  Van Pelt, Shelby,

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  After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Awake in the Floating City

  a Novel

  Kwan, Susanna,

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  "Bo knows she should leave. Almost everyone else has fled San Francisco as years of rain drowned it. Her mother was carried away in a storm surge and ever since, Bo has been alone. Grief-stricken, an artist unable to make art, a daughter unable to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kin

  Jones, Tayari,

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  "Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Detransition, Baby

  a Novel

  Peters, Torrey,

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  Reese had what previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames thought detransitioning to live as a man would make…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hello Beautiful

  a Novel

  Napolitano, Ann,

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  "William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cloud Cuckoo Land

  a Novel

  Doerr, Anthony, 1973-

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  Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous…Read moreRead more of this annotation