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• An American Marriage

  Jones, Tayari,

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  Told in three distinct parts, through three narrators – Roy, Celestial and Andre – this novel explores love, circumstance and the marriage of a young couple. Roy is an up-and-coming business man who ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time. His…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Circe

  a Novel

  Miller, Madeline,

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  A figure in Greek mythology, Circe is best known from her minor role in The Odyssey, the ancient epic that is one of the founding texts of Western civilization. Here novelist Miller (Song of Achilles) tells Circe’s full story, drawing not only on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Educated

  a Memoir

  Westover, Tara,

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  Tara Westover's memoir is like no other. Raised by survivalists in the Idaho mountains, Westover never attended school; instead she helped with her mother's natural healing business and salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her family came together…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Believers

  Makkai, Rebecca,

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  Chicago, 1985: Yale Tishman is the director of a new art gallery at Northwestern University and just hitting his stride when he loses his friend Nico to AIDS. Nico is not the first, nor will he be the last of Yale’s circle to succumb as the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heavy

  An American Memoir

  Laymon, Kiese,

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  Kiese Laymon's debut is a harrowing memoir, written to his mother, is about finding his truth in overcoming the addictions caused by childhood mental, physical and sexual abuse. Laymon explores his struggle with anorexia, obesity, and sex while…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'll Be Gone in the Dark

  One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

  McNamara, Michelle, 1970-2016,

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  At the time of her death, Michelle McNamara was working on a book about the still unsolved case of the Golden State Killer. Mere months after the posthumous publication of McNamara's engrossing, assiduously researched book, a suspect has been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  Moshfegh, Ottessa,

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  Moshfegh, whose last novel Eileen was nominated for a Booker Prize, offers up an unsettling, darkly humorous novel. The unnamed narrator, a recent college graduate living off her parents' inheritance in New York City, attempts to voluntarily…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Severance

  Ma, Ling, 1983-

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  Capitalism and zombies have gone together like chocolate and peanut butter since George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, but in Severance, Ling Ma takes a common conceit and turns it into something completely new. Candace Chen is 20-something,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There There

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Tommy Orange (Cheyenne, Arapaho) wastes no time and goes right for the gut in his debut novel. The prologue opens with the description of the Indian Head test pattern on TV screens until the late seventies. He then follows with the various ways the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Washington Black

  Edugyan, Esi,

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  Born a slave on a Barbados plantation, George Washington Black (known as Wash) is about 12 years old when he is assigned to be the manservant and assistant to the plantation owner's brother, Titch. Titch is a scientist, inventor and explorer who…Read moreRead more of this annotation