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the one about the girl with moonlight in her eyes.
Laura Lippman • Wilde Lake
—Charlotte Clingstone presented a kind of ideal. She was bohemian but accomplished. Worldly but rooted.
Robin Sloan • Sourdough: A Novel
Here is Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people’s babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women’s self-defense nonprofit where she works. She believes they’ve be... See more
Miranda July • The First Bad Man
Wherever her family went, she became the node that connected all wandering Americans worth knowing.
Hernan Diaz • Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
His skin smelled like soap and subway,
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
“You’re really in luck,” Barney Northrup said for the sixth and last time. “There’s only one apartment left, but you’ll love it. It was meant for you.”
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
She was a vapor that in my imagination continued to burn without a wick.