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    The Dry Season

    Two years after the chaotic, self-imposed implosion of her most significant romantic relationship (an affair and breakup she dubs "the Maelstrom") and on the heels of yet another anxiety-provoking bad...

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    Painter Agnes Martin

    In The Dry Season, Melissa Febos seeks out stories of creative women who might serve as models for the kind of artistic life she hopes to pursue following a period of self-enforced celibacy. One ...

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    Great Big Beautiful Life

    Love, often couched in other themes or squeezed between ideas and concepts of apparent greater effect in literary fiction, rarely enjoys exploration for its own sake in its naked simplicity. However, ...

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    Romance Novels with Complex Themes

    In many ways, Emily Henry's Great Big Beautiful Life is about the complex bond between mothers and daughters that prompts mothers to act in strange, counterintuitive ways. While the novel is quite ...

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    This Is Your Mother

    "Imagine this is your mother. Sallie Carol. Daughter of sharecroppers. Middle of ten." From its first lines onward, Erika J. Simpson's debut memoir invites readers to get to know and admire her mother...

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    Memoirs about Mothers

    Erika J. Simpson's This Is Your Mother is an unconventional memoir about the author's mother Sallie Carol. Below we highlight some other recommended memoirs in which an author reflects on their ...

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    Death in the Jungle

    Most people have heard the expression "drinking the Kool-Aid," but not everyone is familiar with its horrifying origin. The often offhanded phrase is a reference to the 1978 tragedy at Jonestown, a ...

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    Cyanide Toxicity: How It Works

    Death in the Jungle tells the true story of Jim Jones, the preacher-turned-cult-leader who founded the infamous Jonestown settlement, a socialist community that became a site of mass murder. Jones ...

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    Are You Happy?

    Is anyone happy? The more we learn about people's lives, the harder that question becomes to answer. In Lori Ostlund's collection Are You Happy? we follow nine stories that are sincere, thoughtful, ...

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    The Reality of Writing Workshops

    Several stories in Lori Ostlund's Are You Happy? follow characters who are either teachers or students in writing workshops. Writing workshops are intended to help students strengthen their ...

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    The Names

    The prologue of Florence Knapp's marvelous debut, The Names, begins on October 16, 1987, the day after the Great Storm hit England. We meet Cora, a young woman of Irish descent, as she and her ...

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    Goya's Black Paintings

    In a key scene in Florence Knapp's novel The Names, two characters are in an art gallery viewing an exhibition. The author writes: 'They stop in front of a hideous image, a painting ...

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