Kin
By Tayari Jones
From the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage comes a luminous new novel about lifelong friends bound by love and divided by fate. Raised together in Louisiana, Vernice and Annie’s paths diverge into vastly different worlds, until devastating tragedy collides their lives again in this novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood.
Leather & Chains
By Kate Camp
I never kept a diary, except for one year of my life. The year I turned 14. The year my parents divorced. The year I had sex for the first time. The year I learned to use the microfiche. Kate Camp dives back into her 1986 diary, revisiting more than 100 entries and responding to the sex, drugs, and risk-taking of her 14-year-old self through the clear-eyed lens of adulthood.
Lost Lambs
By Madeline Cash
The only thing better than one loveable, dysfunctional main character is five of them. This book is hilarious, completely unhinged, and brilliantly nuts. On paper, the Flynn family looks somewhat ‘traditional’: two parents, a stay-at-home mum, a breadwinner accountant dad, and three daughters. In reality? Bud and Catherine decide to open up their marriage, and everything begins to unravel.
The Bloom Because Of You
By Jessica Urlichs
Bestselling author and Instagram sensation Jessica Urlichs returns with They Bloom Because of You, a tender new poetry collection on the evolving journey of motherhood. Exploring the idea that a mother is born alongside her child, honouring the profound significance of mothering and the extraordinary beauty of watching our children unfold into who they are meant to be.
Strangers
By Belle Burden
A propulsive memoir chronicling the collapse of her 20-year marriage when her husband leaves without warning at the very beginning of the pandemic. What sharpens it further is Burden’s extraordinary lineage: she is the granddaughter of one of Truman Capote’s famed ‘Swans.’ In these chapters, Burden divulges everything, holding tight to the truth of her original love story even as she reckons with its unraveling.
The Truth About Ruby Cooper
By Liz Nugent
Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond, returns with another deliciously dark, compulsive novel of secrets and sisterhood. When 16-year-old Ruby’s actions shatter her family’s devout Boston community, the fallout reverberates for decades to come, from Boston to Dublin. But no matter how far Ruby runs, the past refuses to stay buried forever.
Words: Mandy Myles of Bookety Book Books
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