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Laura & Emma
Kate Greathead
★★★★★· Published 2018· 353 pages· read 2018
A single mother raising her daughter on the Upper East Side across the '80s and '90s. Quiet, funny, and quietly devastating.
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Prisoners fight to the death on live TV for a shot at freedom. A furious, unforgettable indictment of American incarceration.
Home Fire
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A modern retelling of Antigone set in a British Muslim family torn between loyalty and the state. Builds to something devastating.
★ 5Unlikely Animals
Annie Hartnett
A young woman comes home to care for her dying father, narrated by the town's cemetery dead. Odd, tender, and full of heart.