Book · May 21, 2024
"A powerful coming-of-age novel about queerness and addiction in rural America, and the heartbreak that comes from loving a place that doesn't always love you back"-- ...
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Book · January 25, 2022
"As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Juárez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home ... ...
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Book · January 8, 2019
Set within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia, Mesha Maren’s Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a break for another life, the use and treachery of makeshift families, and how, no matter the distance we think ... ...
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Book ReviewThe New York Times Book Review
Austyn Wohlers's novel, ''Hothouse Bloom,'' sets a solitary woman's reawakening in a setting steeped in biblical imagery. ...
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Book ReviewThe New York Times Book Review
In Reine Arcache Melvin’s debut, “The Betrayed,” the Filipina-born daughters of a dead political dissident fall for the enemy. ...
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