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Baker & TaylorInviting her extended family to a party in celebration of her eightieth birthday, Martha Winter prepares to reveal a long-hidden secret that has the potential to destroy everything that her husband and she built together.Baker &...
"I just learned the same man wrote The Family Fang, equally out-there and equally enjoyable. This story is about two women from very different circumstances who become fast friends at a boarding school. One, Madison, was destined for a golden life ..."
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"Lillian and Madison were unlikely, yet inseparable friends at their boarding school. Then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal, and they have barely spoken since. Years later, Lillian gets a letter from Madison...
"Oh, the beauty of the language in this book. It is a fictionalized memoir of the author written in the format of a letter to his mother, who emigrated to the US from Vietnam. She never learned to speak much English and doesn’t understand her son’s..."
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"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a...