📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary)
📜TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW📜
by Gabrielle Zevin
❗Goodreads Book of the Year 2022
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➡️ In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. ---------------------------------------------------------
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees Sadie Green. He calls her name and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. But this won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
📜TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW📜
by Gabrielle Zevin
❗Goodreads Book of the Year 2022
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➡️ In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees Sadie Green. He calls her name and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. But this won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary)
📜A LITTLE LIFE📜
by Hanya Yanagihara
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➡️ “Deeply moving. . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship.” —NPR ---------------------------------------------------------
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition.
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.
📜A LITTLE LIFE📜
by Hanya Yanagihara
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➡️ “Deeply moving. . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship.” —NPR ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition.
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary)
📜LAND OF MILK AND HONEY📜
by C Pam Zhang
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➡️ The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world. ---------------------------------------------------------
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A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles.
Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body.
In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef’s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate.
📜LAND OF MILK AND HONEY📜
by C Pam Zhang
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➡️ The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles.
Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body.
In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef’s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary #comedy)
📜DON'T FORGET TO WRITE📜
by Sara Goodman
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➡️ In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good.
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When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi’s son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it’s Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye.
To Marilyn’s surprise, Ada’s not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermès scarf, and Cadillac convertible. She’s sharp, straight-talking, takes her job very seriously, and abides by her own rules…mostly. As the summer unfolds, Ada and Marilyn head for the Jersey shore, where Marilyn helps Ada scope out eligible matches—for anyone but Marilyn, that is.
Because if there’s one thing Marilyn’s learned from Ada, it’s that she doesn’t have to settle. With the school year quickly approaching and her father threatening to disinherit her, Marilyn must make her choice for her future: return to the comfortable life she knows or embrace a risky, unknown path on her own.
📜DON'T FORGET TO WRITE📜
by Sara Goodman
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➡️ In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good.
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📗About:
When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi’s son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it’s Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye.
To Marilyn’s surprise, Ada’s not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermès scarf, and Cadillac convertible. She’s sharp, straight-talking, takes her job very seriously, and abides by her own rules…mostly. As the summer unfolds, Ada and Marilyn head for the Jersey shore, where Marilyn helps Ada scope out eligible matches—for anyone but Marilyn, that is.
Because if there’s one thing Marilyn’s learned from Ada, it’s that she doesn’t have to settle. With the school year quickly approaching and her father threatening to disinherit her, Marilyn must make her choice for her future: return to the comfortable life she knows or embrace a risky, unknown path on her own.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary)
📜TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM📜
by Yaa Gyasi
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➡️ Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
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Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her.
But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love.
📜TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM📜
by Yaa Gyasi
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➡️ Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
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📗About:
Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her.
But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary)
📜THE LOST BOOKSHOP📜
by Evie Woods
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➡️ The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.
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For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.
But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems.
📜THE LOST BOOKSHOP📜
by Evie Woods
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➡️ The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.
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📗About:
For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.
But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #comingofage #contemporary)
📜THE GIRLS📜
by Emma Cline
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➡️ A Riveting Coming-of-Age Novel Inspired by History.
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"The Girls" by Emma Cline is a captivating novel set in 2016, which draws inspiration from the infamous Manson Family cult of the late 1960s. The story follows Evie Boyd, a teenage girl in Northern California, who becomes entranced by a group of girls living on a ranch, led by the enigmatic Russell.
As Evie gets pulled deeper into their world of freedom and rebellion, the novel explores themes of identity, desire, and the allure of belonging. The narrative alternates between past and present, examining Evie's adolescent yearnings and the repercussions of her brief association with the cult.
If you're interested in a gripping coming-of-age narrative that delves into the complexities of teenage emotions, societal pressures, and the allure of counterculture movements, "The Girls" offers a compelling and thought-provoking exploration of adolescence and the search for identity. 📖👧🔍
📜THE GIRLS📜
by Emma Cline
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➡️ A Riveting Coming-of-Age Novel Inspired by History.
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📗About:
"The Girls" by Emma Cline is a captivating novel set in 2016, which draws inspiration from the infamous Manson Family cult of the late 1960s. The story follows Evie Boyd, a teenage girl in Northern California, who becomes entranced by a group of girls living on a ranch, led by the enigmatic Russell.
As Evie gets pulled deeper into their world of freedom and rebellion, the novel explores themes of identity, desire, and the allure of belonging. The narrative alternates between past and present, examining Evie's adolescent yearnings and the repercussions of her brief association with the cult.
If you're interested in a gripping coming-of-age narrative that delves into the complexities of teenage emotions, societal pressures, and the allure of counterculture movements, "The Girls" offers a compelling and thought-provoking exploration of adolescence and the search for identity. 📖👧🔍
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary #emigrants)
📜EXIT WEST📜
by Mohsin Hamid
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➡️ A Poignant Tale of Love and Migration.
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"Exit West" by Mohsin Hamid is a thought-provoking novel set in 2017. The story follows Nadia and Saeed, two young lovers in an unnamed city on the brink of civil war.
As the conflict escalates, mysterious doorways begin to appear, offering a way for people to flee to safer lands. Nadia and Saeed embark on a journey through these doors, experiencing different cities and grappling with the challenges of love, identity, and displacement.
If you're intrigued by a beautifully written narrative that explores the human experience of migration and the search for a better life, "Exit West" is a poignant and timely novel that reflects on the complexities of our world. 📖✨🌍
📜EXIT WEST📜
by Mohsin Hamid
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➡️ A Poignant Tale of Love and Migration.
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📗About:
"Exit West" by Mohsin Hamid is a thought-provoking novel set in 2017. The story follows Nadia and Saeed, two young lovers in an unnamed city on the brink of civil war.
As the conflict escalates, mysterious doorways begin to appear, offering a way for people to flee to safer lands. Nadia and Saeed embark on a journey through these doors, experiencing different cities and grappling with the challenges of love, identity, and displacement.
If you're intrigued by a beautifully written narrative that explores the human experience of migration and the search for a better life, "Exit West" is a poignant and timely novel that reflects on the complexities of our world. 📖✨🌍
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary)
📜THE LACUNA📜
by Barbara Kingsolver
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➡️ A Rich Historical Novel Spanning Decades.
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"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver is a captivating novel set in 2009, primarily exploring the life of Harrison Shepherd, a man with a complex identity, against the backdrop of historical events.
The story traces Shepherd's life from his childhood in Mexico to his experiences working for famous figures like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Through Shepherd's eyes, the novel weaves a narrative that encompasses the Mexican Revolution, McCarthyism, and the Red Scare in the United States.
If you're drawn to richly layered narratives that blend history, politics, and personal stories, "The Lacuna" offers a beautifully written and insightful exploration of identity, culture, and the impact of historical events on individual lives. 📖🌎🎨
📜THE LACUNA📜
by Barbara Kingsolver
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➡️ A Rich Historical Novel Spanning Decades.
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📗About:
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver is a captivating novel set in 2009, primarily exploring the life of Harrison Shepherd, a man with a complex identity, against the backdrop of historical events.
The story traces Shepherd's life from his childhood in Mexico to his experiences working for famous figures like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Through Shepherd's eyes, the novel weaves a narrative that encompasses the Mexican Revolution, McCarthyism, and the Red Scare in the United States.
If you're drawn to richly layered narratives that blend history, politics, and personal stories, "The Lacuna" offers a beautifully written and insightful exploration of identity, culture, and the impact of historical events on individual lives. 📖🌎🎨
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary #2016)
📖 THE VEGETARIAN 📖
by Han Kang
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🌱 An Unsettling Exploration of Identity and Rebellion.
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"The Vegetarian" by Han Kang delves into the life of Yeong-hye, a woman who decides to stop eating meat after a series of vivid dreams. This decision sets off a chain reaction in her life, exploring themes of identity, societal expectations, and the boundaries of personal choice.
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📖 THE VEGETARIAN 📖
by Han Kang
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🌱 An Unsettling Exploration of Identity and Rebellion.
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"The Vegetarian" by Han Kang delves into the life of Yeong-hye, a woman who decides to stop eating meat after a series of vivid dreams. This decision sets off a chain reaction in her life, exploring themes of identity, societal expectations, and the boundaries of personal choice.
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📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary)
📖 THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA 📖
by TJ Klune
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🏠 A Heartwarming Tale of Magic and Acceptance.
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"The House in the Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune is a delightful and heartwarming story following Linus Baker, a caseworker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. His life takes an unexpected turn when he's sent to observe an orphanage for magical children and meets its extraordinary inhabitants. This charming tale explores themes of love, acceptance, and the power of found family.
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📖 THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA 📖
by TJ Klune
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🏠 A Heartwarming Tale of Magic and Acceptance.
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"The House in the Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune is a delightful and heartwarming story following Linus Baker, a caseworker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. His life takes an unexpected turn when he's sent to observe an orphanage for magical children and meets its extraordinary inhabitants. This charming tale explores themes of love, acceptance, and the power of found family.
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📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary #modern)
📖 THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI 📖
by Akwaeke Emezi
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🌟 A Poignant Exploration of Identity and Loss.
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"The Death of Vivek Oji" by Akwaeke Emezi unravels the life and death of Vivek Oji, a young Nigerian whose sudden demise leaves behind a trail of unanswered questions. Through vibrant storytelling and multiple perspectives, this novel delves into themes of identity, family, and the search for self-understanding in a culture steeped in tradition and change.
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📖 THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI 📖
by Akwaeke Emezi
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🌟 A Poignant Exploration of Identity and Loss.
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"The Death of Vivek Oji" by Akwaeke Emezi unravels the life and death of Vivek Oji, a young Nigerian whose sudden demise leaves behind a trail of unanswered questions. Through vibrant storytelling and multiple perspectives, this novel delves into themes of identity, family, and the search for self-understanding in a culture steeped in tradition and change.
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📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary #2021)
📖 THE SWEETNESS OF WATER 📖
by Nathan Harris
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🌾 An Intimate Story of Freedom and Resilience After the Civil War.
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"The Sweetness of Water" by Nathan Harris paints a vivid portrait of the post-Civil War South, following two brothers who forge an unexpected friendship with two newly emancipated men. This novel navigates themes of race, love, and the pursuit of freedom in a landscape marked by the legacy of war and social upheaval.
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📖 THE SWEETNESS OF WATER 📖
by Nathan Harris
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🌾 An Intimate Story of Freedom and Resilience After the Civil War.
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📗 About:
"The Sweetness of Water" by Nathan Harris paints a vivid portrait of the post-Civil War South, following two brothers who forge an unexpected friendship with two newly emancipated men. This novel navigates themes of race, love, and the pursuit of freedom in a landscape marked by the legacy of war and social upheaval.
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