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• Anita De Monte Laughs Last

  Gonzalez, Xochitl, 1977-

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  In this follow up to her acclaimed debut Olga Dies Dreaming, Gonzalez tells a rich and unique story about two Latina women, living parallel lives a decade apart. Raquel is a working-class Puerto Rican art history student at an exclusive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Colored Television

  Senna, Danzy,

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  In Senna's uproariously funny novel, Jane, a struggling mixed-race writer, her artist husband, and her two young kids are encamped at a swanky LA residence that belongs to a friend who is temporarily abroad for work. On sabbatical from her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Creation Lake

  a Novel

  Kushner, Rachel,

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  In this irresistible noir novel (Booker-shortlisted), mercenary agent "Sadie" is hired to infiltrate Le Moulin, a group of back-to-the-land activists living on a commune in the French countryside. Group founder Bruno Lacombe, who lives in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cue the Sun!

  the Invention of Reality TV

  Nussbaum, Emily, 1966-

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  New Yorker staff writer Nussbaum peeks behind the curtain of the reality TV genre, examining twenty-first century morés in the process. Scores of interviews with the showrunners, producers, cast and crew of seminal shows like Survivor, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

  the United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

  Blitzer, Jonathan,

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  Blitzer, a staff writer on immigration for The New Yorker, focuses on the experiences of several people to draw a line between U.S. foreign policy in Central America beginning during the Cold War, through the domestic policies related to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The God of the Woods

  Moore, Liz, 1983-

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  Moore's deeply satisfying literary thriller opens at a summer camp in 1975 when a camp counselor, Louise, notices the bed belonging to her camper, Barbara, is empty. A missing 13-year-old girl is a problem, especially since that girl is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival,

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  Whether you've read Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or not, most of us are familiar with the tale of Huck and Jim, and their travels along the mighty Mississippi. Percival Everett jolts us into 2024 with his stirring and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Martyr!

  Akbar, Kaveh,

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  Cyrus Shams is a recovering addict, poet, and orphan living in the Midwest and searching for a way to give his life (and death) some meaning. Haunted by the senseless murder of his mother, whose plane was shot down on accident by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rejection

  Fiction

  Tulathimutte, Tony,

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  Things go terribly, terribly wrong for the characters in this scathing, satirical fiction composed of seven interconnected stories. In "The Feminist," a man who thinks of himself as an enlightened ally to women finds himself increasingly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There's Always This Year

  on Basketball and Ascension

  Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-

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  The cover of There's Always This Year shows a young boy with lovingly worn Air Jordans, casually sitting atop a neighborhood court's basketball hoop. His eyes are cropped out. Is he watching a game? Is he watching the block? Abdurraqib's…Read moreRead more of this annotation