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In Garth Greenwell’s searingly personal and super sexy Cleanness, an American reflects on the time he has spent abroad as a teacher in Bulgaria, with particular focus on his emotional and sexual experiences.
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Miranda Popkey’s Topics of Conversation is a particularly distinctive collection of conversations between women painting a portrait of female desire, love, shame, and much more.
Thank you to Knopf Publishing for the free book!
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Lee Matalone’s Home Making is a quietly profound story of a mother and daughter, each navigating her own meanings of motherhood and “home.”
Thank you to Harper Perennial for the free advanced copy of this book!
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Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch is an ethereal modern masterpiece about a young boy whose mother’s death spirals the next 15 years of his life into the uncomfortable, dark, and dangerous unknown.
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Miriam Toews’ Women Talking is the intriguing, frank story of a group of Mennonite women discussing their futures in the tight-knit community after learning that several men had been drugging and sexually assaulting them in the night.
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Lila Savage’s Say Say Say is the gentle, moving story of a young woman silently pondering her place in the world as she provides care for a woman inflicted with brain damage.
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Virginia Reeves’ The Behavior of Love is a beautiful, heartbreaking, and wickedly honest story of the wonderful and detrimental sides of love & ambition and living with the repercussions of one’s life.
Thank you very much to Scribner for this free review copy!
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