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It’s as if M.C. Escher and Thich Nhat Hanh made installation art, but because it’s Broder, author of the hilariously dark oddball novel Milk Fed, the boundary-pushing hallucinatory musings make sense.

Bethanne Patrick Is Only Here to Signal Boost

Circling back and forth across the life of Trelawny and his Jamaican immigrant family as they wrestle with what’s left of the American dream (beginning in 1970s Miami), the author exposes uncomfortable social truths with fine details, wit and dazzling verbal versatility.

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@HeatherKellyPhD Pick me, pick me! CHAIN-GANG ALL STARS by Nana-Kwame Adjei-Brenyah GAMES AND RITUALS by Katherine Heiny BIRNAM WOOD by Eleanor Catton MAAME by Jessica George SYMPHONY OF SECRETS by Brendan Slocumb KUNSTLERS IN PARADISE by Cathleen Schine DUST CHILD by Nguyen Phan Que Mai

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Come for the writerly scheming, stay for the exquisitely calibrated examination of how our most tender and important bonds involve the manipulation of power and devotion.

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Meals delineates muscle types and mechanics — from those in the fingers typing these words to those helping your eyes read them — and gives a micro-course in muscle development plans throughout history, his professional expertise matched by his personal passion for his subject.

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"We critics leave our factual errors behind for all to see. Our errors, our evasions, our simplifications and dismissals: what we didn’t know or didn’t care to know about the art we loved." --Margo Jefferson, CONSTRUCTING A NERVOUS SYSTEM: A Memoir (@PantheonBooks, 4/12/22)

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@miciahbay NIGHT BITCH by Rachel Yoder GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS by Max Porter FIGHT NIGHT by Miriam Toews THRUST by Lidia Yuknavitch

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Really proud to post my review of THE MAJORITY by Elizabeth Silver from @RiverheadBooks in @latimesbooks: https://t.co/SpJjPuw5c3

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Shapiro shows in fiction what she’s spent decades teasing out in memoir: That our lives are ruled by subtle human connections we sometimes fail to understand because few of us are wholly plugged into the unseen forces that affect our lives.

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WHAT a list. Special congrats from me to @MorowaYejide of DC for CREATURES OF PASSAGE, which is an amazing novel. But congrats to all the others on here, too, I've covered/read nine and can't wait to get to the remaining books. https://twitter.com/WomensPrize/status/1501129164547571712