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Emulation of more noxious aspects of adolescence, rather than the clearheaded pristine innocence of authentic childhood.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
watch the romances and comedies of his mind projected onto his face,
Andrew Sean Greer • Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1)
Dublin in the rare, etc.
Sally Rooney • Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
Sometime during the night, Maxine dreams she’s a mouse who’s been running at large inside the walls of a vast apartment building she understands is the U.S., venturing out into kitchens and pantries to scavenge for food, scuffling but free, and in these small hours she has been attracted by what she recognizes as a sort of humane mousetrap yet cann
... See moreThomas Pynchon • Bleeding Edge
My favorite Hebrew novel of all time, A. B. Yehoshua’s 1989 masterpiece Mr. Mani, is a fantastically inventive story that moves backwards in time through six generations of a Jerusalem family while tracing the family’s recurring suicidal gene—until you get to the end, which is really the beginning, when the enduring mystery of the family’s self-des
... See moreDara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
(What about Hannah? They set up her nursery in the bedroom in the attic, where things that were not wanted were kept, and even when she got older, now and then each of them would forget, fleetingly, that she existed—as when Marilyn, laying four plates for dinner one night, did not realize her omission until Hannah reached the table. Hannah, as if s
... See moreCeleste Ng • Everything I Never Told You
his life, he has been homesick.