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Newsletter #269

April 6, 2020

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3 books featured in this issue

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Afternoon of a Faun

by James Lasdun

MADE-UP

These days, when public discourse seems like so much shouting past each other, the last thing you want to read is a fictionalized he-said/she-said about a #metoo moment. BUT! Not many write as lucidly... (Liz)

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Godshot

by Chelsea Bieker

MADE-UP

In a drought-stricken California town, a teenage girl grows up in thrall to her troubled single mother and a pastor with a cultish power over his flock, struggling to assert autonomy over her mind, so... (James)

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Great

by Sara Benincasa

MADE-UP

Great is a retelling of The Great Gatsby as a contemporary YA novel. In this version, Nick Carraway is reimagined as a teenage girl named Naomi Rye, who is spending the summer at her mother’s East Ham... (Anika)

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