Purchase a copy for yourself here! Weather, the latest novel from Jenny Offill, leans into the impending doom. Like Offill’s bestselling Department of Speculation, the novel is structured in diary-like paragraphs, or quick thought bursts featuring some of Offill’s classic one liners. (A woman who nearly hits a family of pedestrians with her car mumbles,… Continue reading Weather by Jenny Offill
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Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Samantha Irby’s third collection of essays, Wow, No Thank You, is the perfect read for those of us entering into a new level of comfortability with ourselves during this time of social isolation. Irby’s previous essay collections, Meaty and We Are Never Meeting In Real Life, take more of… Continue reading Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Purchase a copy for yourself here! On the evening of her 25th birthday, Libby Jones receives a letter that comes to totally transforms her understanding of her origins, and open the doors to her mysterious past. Lisa Jewell’s 17th novel, The Family Upstairs, tells the story of Libby’s efforts to answer the questions posed by… Continue reading The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Purchase a copy for yourself here! In 1946, during the height of Jim Crow South, the Mississippi Delta was a community still beholden to the values of the Antebellum South: racial discrimination and violence were the norm. It is in this fraught landscape that Hillary Jordan set her debut novel, Mudbound, which explores the lives… Continue reading Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Caroline Criado-Perez has devoted her activist career to amplifying the voices of marginalized females in the public space. She was an instrumental part of campaigns to rework Twitter’s online abuse policies, to get a female historical figure on the back of British banknotes, and to install a statue of… Continue reading Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Purchase a copy for yourself here! In 1990’s England, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines a dystopian alternate reality—a boarding school beset with human clones. This school, Hailsham, is the setting of Ishiguro’s 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go. The novel is constructed as a sort of memoir, narrated by Kathy, an adult female “carer” (the meaning of… Continue reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Purchase a copy for yourself here! The community of Shaker Heights, Ohio was the first fully planned community to spring up in America. The Shakers built a town beholden to strict aesthetic and moral codes, laying out residential streets, schools, and businesses according to rigorous family-friendly standards. This suburban oasis is the setting for Celeste… Continue reading Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng