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Otherwise Engaged
Suzanne Finnamore
★★★★· Published 1999· 177 pages· read 2019
A wickedly funny account of one woman's year-long engagement, and how a perfectly rational person slowly comes undone in the countdown to the wedding.
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★ 5Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
The sweeping story of Cal, intersex, and three generations of a Greek American family. Eugenides makes the whole saga sing.
The New Girls
Beth Gutcheon
Five girls at a New England prep school in the '60s, growing up as the Vietnam War and the women's movement crash into their sheltered world. It opens on their reunion, where we learn one of them didn't make it.
★ 5Waiting
Ha Jin
A Chinese army doctor spends eighteen years waiting to divorce one woman and marry another. Quiet, patient, and quietly heartbreaking.