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First Few Pages: Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

Posted on September 26, 2022| Posted in Featured, First Few Pages, Book Collection

In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.

First Few Pages: Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

Posted on August 30, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yet. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.

First Few Pages: The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland

Posted on August 11, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages, Book Collection

After a failed attempt at escape, the princess of a tiny kingdom begins to reevaluate her life. Barbara Bourland’s stunning third novel The Force of Such Beauty is her most ambitious and most imaginative book to date. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.

First Few Pages: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Posted on July 21, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages

Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Read the First Few Pages on the blog.

Author Spotlight: Q&A with Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow author Gabrielle Zevin

Posted on July 8, 2022| Posted in Spotlight

In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry 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. Read the Q&A with author Gabrielle Zevin.

First Look Club: Jowana reviews Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades

Posted on June 22, 2022| Posted in First Look Club

Divided into eight parts and 50-plus short chapters, “Brown Girls” is a coming-of-age story of a group of brown-skinned girls living in Queens; each chapter marks their dreams and delusions, successes and failures, enlightenment and confusion, and happiness and heartbreaks. Read Jowana's review on the blog.

First Look Club: Dan reviews Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Posted on June 22, 2022| Posted in First Look Club

With Elizabeth Zott, Bonnie Garmus gave us an unforgettable character that broke the ceiling in the 60s when ceilings were much higher and harder to break. Read Dan's review on the blog.

12 Comforting Classics to Read This Year

Posted on May 4, 2022| Posted in Featured, Book Collection

Literary classics have inspired readers through its imaginative prose, use of evolving language, and expression of beauty in the form of literary art. Here are some classic titles you should include in your to-be-read list in 2022.

First Few Pages: I Was the President’s Mistress!! by Miguel Syjuco

Posted on April 21, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages

I Was the President’s Mistress!! hurtles headlong into love, politics, faith, history, memory, and the ongoing war over who will tell the stories the world shall know as truth. Read more on the blog.

First Few Pages: Elektra by Jennifer Saint

Posted on April 21, 2022| Posted in First Few Pages

A spellbinding reimagining of the story of Elektra, one of Greek mythology’s most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne. Read more on the blog.