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The Mothers by Bennett, BritThe Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.
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The Vanishing Half by Bennett, BritThe lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine.
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The Guest Book by Blake, SarahThe Guest Book by Sarah Blake, chronicles three generations of the Milton family as they weather love and loss, tragedy and triumph, and the winds of social and political change. Set largely on Crockett's Island off the Maine coast, the story is both family saga and American epic as it spans the 1930s to the present in its examination of the Miltons and their legacy.
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Fleishman Is in Trouble by Brodesser-Akner, TaffyDr. Toby Fleishman wakes up each morning surrounded by independent women know what they want--and, against all odds, what they want is Toby. Who knew what kind of life awaited him once he extracted himself from his nightmare of a marriage? Who knew that there were women who would look at him with softness and desire? His optimisim is quickly extinguished when his ex-wife suddenly disappears.
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Queenie by Carty-Williams, CandiceBridget Jones's Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.
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The Last Ballad by Cash, WileySet in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929, this book chronicles an ordinary woman's struggle for dignity and her rights in a textile mill.