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The Awkward Age
Francesca Segal
★★★★· Published 2017· 368 pages· read 2018
Two single parents fall in love just as their teenagers fall for each other. A smart, prickly look at blended families and jealousy.
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A woman holes up at her family's Sierra cabin to finish her dissertation and instead falls into a consuming affair. Huneven is so good on desire and self-sabotage.
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
A brutal, beautiful, devastating novel about four friends and the trauma one of them carries. Be warned it's a lot — I sobbed. Not for everyone but I couldn't shake it.
★ 5The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
A Ponzi scheme, a shipping magnate, a woman who slips between worlds. Mandel writes eerie, gorgeous, interconnected stories like no one else.