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Sex and Rage
Eve Babitz
★★★★· Published 1979· 257 pages· read 2022
Babitz makes 1970s LA feel like the most glamorous place on earth. Sun-drenched and gossipy, and sharper than it first looks.
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The Inn at Lake Devine (Vintage Contemporaries)
Elinor Lipman
A Jewish girl becomes quietly obsessed with a Vermont inn that won't take Jewish guests. Lipman turns prejudice into something wry and human without letting it off the hook.
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri's story collection about Indian and Indian American lives, longing and distance. Each one is quietly perfect.
The Wife
Meg Wolitzer
A woman flying to Finland to leave her celebrated novelist husband, and the secret behind his success. Wolitzer is so sharp about marriage and ambition.