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The Hopefuls
Jennifer Close
★★★★· Published 2016· 310 pages
A young couple chases political dreams in DC while their marriage strains. Close is great on ambition, envy, and friendship.
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Marrying the Ketchups
Jennifer Close
A big Irish-American family and their Chicago restaurant in the weird aftermath of 2016. Funny and full of people you recognize.
★ 5The Lemon
S.E. Boyd
A pitch-black comedy about the death of a celebrity chef and the frantic, self-serving scramble around it. Wickedly fun.
Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday
A young woman and a famous older writer, then a seemingly unrelated second half that reframes everything. A clever, quietly ambitious novel about who gets to tell whose story.