Curtis Sittenfeld Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Curtis Sittenfeld

I just read a long and very juicy first novel set at an elite American boarding school: Nash Jenkins. It follows a new student as he navigates privilege, sexual attraction and confusion, and his semi-accidental career as a campus drug dealer.

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@CathyColeborne I just read Nobody Gets Out Alive (short stories) by Leigh Newman and they're wonderful. And one of my favorite books from last year is The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon.

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I just read and LOVED Molly Shannon's forthcoming memoir Hello, Molly! (co-written with the wonderful Sean Wilsey). It's heartbreaking and astonishing in places (she endured an early family tragedy) and also very warm and open and funny and conversational. Pub date 4/12 https://t.co/ka7P7yD40c

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Another new first novel that I absolutely loved is Everything’s Fine by Cecilia Rabess. In New York, in their early 20s, a conservative white guy and a progressive Black woman work together at Goldman Sachs and stumble through their unexpected friendship and budding romance.

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@tkiramadden This describes Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood (it's the title story in the collection)

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Happy pub day to The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang: a very smart novel about family, immigration, delicious food, and brutal Midwestern winters AND a modern retelling of The Brothers Karamazov (!). I'm delighted to do a virtual event with Sam on 2/10 https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/the-family-chao-a-virtual-evening-with-lan-samantha-chang-and-curtis-sittenfeld/ https://t.co/V6on6iZ7aY

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In happier book recs…I got my hands on an early copy of The Evening Hero by @MarieMyungOkLee & it’s so rich & smart & thought-provoking—an epic saga of the division of Korea, an immigrants in rural Minnesota story AND a satire of the American healthcare industry. Out 5/24 https://t.co/R0MHCO2vgh

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The glamorous settings are perfectly described, the celebrity details are magnificent, the dialogue sparkles, and the sex scenes are scorching hot. And there are many of them. But the book also contains real emotional depth and nuance...

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I already know one of my favorite books of 2023: Brotherless Night by @V_V_G is about family and identity and the Sri Lankan Civil War and it's truly brilliant and beautiful and devastating (out Jan 3) https://t.co/dmpUyZ7fRt

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Can't wait to ask Dawnie Walton about The Final Revival of Opal & Nev on 4/12 because there's SO much to talk about with this novel https://t.co/echPh4GjkZ

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