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Moonrise Over New Jessup
Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
Reviewed: Nov 22, 2022
 
Published: Jan 10, 2023
 
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
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(4.4/5)
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In the Time of Our History
In the Time of Our History
by Susanne Pari
Reviewed: Aug 15, 2022
 
Published: Jan 3, 2023
 
The prodigal daughter of Iranian immigrants returns to her family home for her sister's One Year – the Persian tradition of marking the first anniversary of someone's death – in an intimate story of identity and duty set in late-1990s San...
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(4.7/5)
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Scatterlings
Scatterlings : A Novel
by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
Reviewed: Sep 19, 2022
 
Published: Dec 13, 2022
 
A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning—and the most awarded debut title in South Africa—that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed, revealing the story of one family...
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(4.1/5)
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Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs : A Novel
by Lydia Millet
Reviewed: Aug 22, 2022
 
Published: Oct 11, 2022
 
Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between ...
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(4.4/5)
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Our Missing Hearts
Our Missing Hearts : A Novel
by Celeste Ng
Reviewed: Aug 15, 2022
 
Published: Oct 4, 2022
 
From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear.
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(4.6/5)
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Honor
Honor
by Thrity Umrigar
Reviewed: Aug 16, 2021
 
Published: Sep 27, 2022
 
A Reese's Book Club Pick. In this riveting and immersive novel set in India, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.
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(4.7/5)
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Natural History
Natural History : Stories
by Andrea Barrett
Reviewed: Jul 11, 2022
 
Published: Sep 13, 2022
 
A masterful new collection of interconnected stories, from the renowned National Book Award–winning author of Ship Fever.
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(4.3/5)
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The Family Izquierdo
The Family Izquierdo : A Novel
by Rubén Degollado
Reviewed: Jul 11, 2022
 
Published: Sep 6, 2022
 
A masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love, and a curse.
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(4.0/5)
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