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The Sisters

Told in vivid prose that explores the immigrant experience, family bonds, and a supposed curse passed from mother to daughter, Khemiri’s bold, intricate family saga will resonate with Rachel Khong and Claire Lombardo fans.
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Weepers

Ed’s narration, a combination of hard-earned wisdom and darkly humorous faux-Biblical rambling, makes for compelling reading. However, the novel’s esoteric themes and frustrating pace might limit its broader appeal.

Room on the Sea: Three Novellas

Count on Aciman for stories filled with love, lust, loss, and not a small measure of regret. These beguiling novellas offer up all of that in spades.
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Flashlight

Choi’s follow-up to Trust Exercises proves she’s a writer at the top of her game, capable of crafting a well-plotted and complex story while remaining attuned to small internal motivations, along with intersectional and cultural liminalities, those edges between surf and sand where so much violence happens, as much to bodies as to hearts, minds, and homes.

The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s

Readers may not always agree with Elie’s contentions in this fascinating, well-written book, but they will never be bored.

By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine

Movingly and realistically portrayed, this is an important work of contemporary witness.

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Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story

True-crime afficionados will find this story unputdownable from start to finish.
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Happiness Forever

Faith presents interesting insights into the client-therapist relationship in this strong character-driven novel, featuring a realistic, even quirky portrayal of someone coming of age.
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Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous, Scandalous Story of Aimee Semple McPherson

Readers who enjoy richly detailed biographies that read like fiction will appreciate Hoffman’s latest. Many will note comparisons to modern televangelists and women religious leaders.

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