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Tell Me Everything
By Elizabeth Strout. 2024
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General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Historical fiction
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With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of…
Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?” It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known—“unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them—reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.” New York Times Bestseller
Good Girl: A Novel
By Null Aria Aber. 2025
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An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—&“a stunning coming-of-age story&” (Publishers Weekly,…
starred review) and a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can&’t escape its historyA girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can&’t get out.&“A no-bullsh*t, must-read debut.&”—Kaveh Akbar&“Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul.&”—Raven Leilani&“An exhilarating debut novel.&”—R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review"Once in a blue moon a debut novel comes along, announcing a voice quite unlike any other, with a layered story and sentences that crackle and pop, begging to be read aloud. Aria Aber&’s splendid Good Girl introduces just such a voice . . . Aber, an award-winning poet, strikes gold here, much like Kaveh Akbar did in last year&’s acclaimed Martyr!"—Los Angeles TimesA Most Anticipated Book of 2025: The New York Times, Vulture, Elle, New York Post, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Bustle, Book Riot, Autostraddle, Daily Mail, Debutiful, Image, Our Culture, Write or Die MagazineIn Berlin&’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist. Then in the haze of Berlin&’s legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of personal and artistic freedom. But as Nila finds herself pulled further into Marlowe&’s controlling orbit, ugly, barely submerged racial tensions begin to roil Germany—and Nila&’s family and community. After a year of running from her future, Nila stops to ask herself the most important question: Who does she want to be?A story of love and family, raves and Kafka, staying up all night and surviving the mistakes of youth, Good Girl is the virtuosic debut novel by a celebrated young poet and, now, a major new voice in fiction.
Fundamentally: ‘The debut of the year’ Stylist
By Nussaibah Younis. 2025
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General fiction, Family stories, LGBTQ+ fiction, Humourous fictionFamily and relationships
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'By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?' Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by…
her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues. Sara is a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just fifteen. Nadia is struck by how similar they are: both feisty and opinionated, from a Muslim background, with a shared love of Dairy Milk and rude pick-up lines. A powerful friendship forms between the two women, until a secret confession from Sara threatens everything Nadia has been working for. A bitingly original, wildly funny and razor-sharp exploration of love, family, religion and the decisions we make in pursuit of belonging, Fundamentally upends and explores a defining controversy of our age with heart, complexity and humour.