by Rachel Khong
Three generations of a Chinese-American family grapple with identity, expectations, and whether family equals destiny in Real Americans, the imaginative and expansive, yet intimate, second novel from Rachel Khong (Goodbye, Vitamins).
On the eve of Y2K, Lily Chen meets Matthew at her employer's office party. Their connection is undeniable, and they fall in love, but Lily's mother, a dedicated geneticist, acts strangely resistant to the idea of Matthew. When a surprising truth comes out, everything Lily
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by Simone Gorrindo
An unflinching, powerful memoir by Simone Gorrindo, whose essays have appeared in the New York Times and New York magazine, The Wives is both an intimate, vulnerable portrait of a marriage and an important depiction of the sacrifice and bravery of military spouses.
In 2012, at the age of 28, a newly married Gorrindo left behind her dream job as an editor in New York to become an army wife in Georgia, giving up "career, friends, more than a decade of history." Her husband, Andrew, had never been able to
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by Brendan Wenzel
Although their perspectives on rainstorms and tree climbing may differ, a dog and a cat don't let this mar their close friendship in Brendan Wenzel's rhyming picture-book charmfest Two Together, in which the unlikely twosome share a timeless and relatable goal: to get home safely.
As a dog and a cat head home together on foot, they encounter the ordinary ("Two together much to see./ Unknown sounds. Smells on trees") and the relatively dramatic: they run into a toad, cross a stream, wake a bear, escape through
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by Joy Sorman, trans. by Lara Vergnaud
Can butchery become ballet? Is the dance of death one of romance and joy, or is it the crude swelling of muscle and a final rattle of breath before becoming mere meat? In the quixotic Tenderloin, French author Joy Sorman gives readers Upton Sinclair's The Jungle with a sprinkling of the absurdity and horror of Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch.
Pim is a skinny kid who aspires to become the best butcher in Paris. He wants money and accolades. He sees beauty in this dirty job that so few want to do, and he understands
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by Jamie Ofelia, illus. by Sara Palacios
In Jamie Ofelia's well-honed, winning debut, Miguel is a gentle, artistic boy in a family of sword fighters. Between Us and Abuela illustrator Sara Palacios endearingly captures the nature of this courageous and loving family in which Miguel is "like a paintbrush, clever and colorful, in a family of steely swords."
All Miguel's life his family has told him, "You must fight!" His abuelitos spar while sipping tea, his parents duel like dancers, and his little sister, Zulema, terrifies the other toddlers with
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by Mazey Eddings
Two women fall in love on a North Carolina flower farm despite the con that brought them together in Mazey Eddings's steamy sapphic romance, Late Bloomer. Struggling artist Opal is surprised when her terrible friend gives her a belated birthday gift: a scratch-off lottery ticket. She's absolutely shocked when she wins $500,000.
Impulsive Opal jumps at the chance to start over and finally pursue her art as a career when she sees a flower farm for sale on Facebook Marketplace. After only a short conversation
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