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Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
★★★★★· Published 2021· 70 pages· read 2024
A coal merchant in small-town Ireland has to decide whether to look away. Tiny book, enormous moral weight. Cried, naturally.
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Rebecca Makkai
The AIDS crisis in 1980s Chicago, braided with a mother searching in present-day Paris. Devastating and unforgettable.
★ 5Foster
Claire Keegan
A small Irish girl is sent to stay with relatives for a summer and finds unexpected tenderness. Perfect, and I mean perfect.
★ 5In Memoriam
Alice Winn
A devastating and gorgeous WWI story about two teenage boys who fall in love in the trenches. It will wreck you. If you finished Shuggie Bain, Demon Copperhead, and/or The Heart’s Invisible Furies, and wanted more, this one’s for you.