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October 2024
Intermezzo
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women--his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude--a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.moreBelletrist has selected a book each month since 2017. See the full archive
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne
Weird Black Girls: Stories
Elwin Cotman
Memory Piece
Lisa Ko
Piglet
Lottie Hazell
Just Like Home
Sarah Gailey
Holding Pattern
Jenny Xie
Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment
Susannah Breslin
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