The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
Five Black women followed across twenty years of friendship, careers, marriage, motherhood, all the messy middle of adulthood. Flournoy's first since The Turner House and worth the wait.
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Suzanne Finnamore
A wickedly funny account of one woman's year-long engagement, and how a perfectly rational person slowly comes undone in the countdown to the wedding.
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout centers on Olive, a teacher living in coastal Maine — and one of my all-time favorite heroines. This book has an unusual structure: It’s a series of short stories revolving around Olive, letting us get to know her through different perspectives. She’s thorny yet compassionate, stubborn yet capable of growth. I feel like I understand her more deeply with each reading, and despite (or because of) her flaws, I see myself in her.
Win Me Something
Kyle Lucia Wu
A biracial young woman nannies for a wealthy Manhattan family, never quite belonging anywhere. Quiet and sharp on class and not fitting in.