★★★★
Sally Rooney’s Normal People is a peculiar but touching coming-of-age of polar-opposite classmates Connell and Marianne with an inexplicable attraction to one another over the years.
Normal People: Sally Rooney
Miracle Creek: Angie Kim
★★★★
Angie Kim’s Miracle Creek is a suspenseful and multi-faceted story of arson and murder in a quiet Virginia town.
A Woman Is No Man: Etaf Rum
★★★★★
Etaf Rum’s A Woman Is No Man is the searingly personal story of three generations of Palestinian Muslim women living in Brooklyn and navigating relationships made complicated by the gap between cultural expectations of Arab women and their increasing desires to be free and independent.
