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• Boy From the North Country

  a Novel

  Sussman, Sam Evan,

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  A son returns home to his dying mother to discover the astonishing truth of his origins and the secrets of a woman whose life and wisdom he is only beginning to understand When Evan, twenty-six, is suddenly called home from his life abroad to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chosen

  Potok, Chaim,

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  A coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, this “profound and universal” (The Wall Street Journal) story of faith, family, tradition, and assimilation remains deeply pertinent today. It’s the spring of 1944…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is Not About Us

  Fiction

  Goodman, Allegra,

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  NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family—steadfast, complicated, begrudging, and loving—from the bestselling author of Isola. Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Long Island Compromise

  Brodesser-Akner, Taffy,

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  NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble. New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • New…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Porcupines

  a Novel / Fran Fabriczki

  Fabriczki, Fran,

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  NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY VOGUE A fresh and witty debut about a young immigrant mother and her increasingly inquisitive daughter, who wakes up one day and decides to find out who her father is. Sonia is a Hungarian immigrant who is raising…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death Valley

  a Novel

  Broder, Melissa,

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  Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times ("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"), Oprah Daily ("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"), Vanity Fair ("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more! From the visionary author of Milk Fed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Gorgeous Excitement

  a Novel

  Weiner, Cynthia,

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  A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews, CrimeReads. There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother’s depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity before she starts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Last Innocent Year

  a Novel

  Alpert Florin, Daisy,

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  An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one woman’s final semester at an elite New England college into controversy and chaos—and into an ill-advised affair with a married professor. It’s 1998…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Middlesteins

  Attenberg, Jami

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  For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night Night Fawn

  a Novel

  Rosenberg, Jordy,

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  From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed gives an unrepentant account of all her failures—including her child. In a cluttered rent-controlled apartment in the middle of Manhattan, Barbara Rosenberg…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rest of Our Lives

  Markovits, Ben

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  A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about marriage, middle-age, and a man at a crossroads in his life. When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair twelve years ago, he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child left the nest. Now,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 4 3 2 1

  a Novel

  Auster, Paul, 1947-

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  Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union

  Chabon, Michael

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  For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fleishman Is in Trouble

  a Novel

  Brodesser-Akner, Taffy,

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  ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Entertainment Weekly, The New York Public Library ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post, USA Today Vanity Fair, Vogue, NPR, Chicago Tribune, GQ, Vox,…Read moreRead more of this annotation