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How To Train Your Human: A Cat’s Guide
This is a funny, witty title that would be a good addition to the humor section of a library as well as the pet care section.
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Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad: Stories
A huge hit in Nigeria, Kuku’s story collection explores women’s lives, sexuality, and resilience in the face of adversity.
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The Brightest Star
Tsukiyama imagines Wong’s conversations, letters and emotions, but at times the narrative feels detached, like a history book or Wikipedia page. The novel is most effective at showing what it took to be a star during the movie business’s early years, especially for a Chinese American woman.
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The Only Daughter
Published in Hebrew before Yehoshua’s death in 2022, this novel revisits themes that the author developed throughout his long career, including Jewish-Christian relations, assimilation in the diaspora, religion and politics, and intergenerational conflict, all explored from a refreshing new angle.
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Cloud Girls
Harding creates her central characters from the stories of many survivors of sex trafficking who were able to tell their stories. The result reflects the horrifying reality of a segment of underage sex trafficking, the people who run it, and those who buy its services. Difficult, eye-opening, and compelling.
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Daughter in Exile
Whether or not Lola’s experiences limn the author’s own, Adjapon’s (The Teller of Secrets) crackling dialogue and barbed humor feel close to the bone. Themes of classism, racism, and fierce feminism will appeal to book groups and readers of Mbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers or Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s Americanah.
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The Enigma of Room 622
Twists abound in this elaborate mystery, but readers will have to power through clichéd dialogue, jarring time shifts, and thin characterization to enjoy them.
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Defending Alice: A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties
Fans of Stratton might appreciate this new offering from the author of crime novel Smack Goddess. Readers interested in Jazz Age history will value Stratton’s close observance of the Rhinelander case and the historically accurate snippets that he peppers throughout his text.
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