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The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
★★★★· Published 2024· 272 pages· read 2024
Postwar Netherlands, a rigid woman and the houseguest she can't stand. It slow-burns and then it detonates. So good.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Two cousins invent a comic-book superhero in the Golden Age while the war closes in on the family left behind in Europe. Chabon's sentences are a joy.
Pet: A Novel
Catherine Chidgey
A creepy, slow-tightening novel narrated by a girl obsessed with her charismatic teacher. Chidgey is so controlled it's unnerving.
★ 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.