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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm
Description
This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Spanning genres and moods, from humorous to heartfelt to ghostly, this collection of sixteen linked short stories about the first days of college tackles what it feels like to take those first shaky steps into adulthood"--
3) Ninth house
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 1
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Description
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about two high school nemeses who end up sharing a house together their first year of college Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone's birthdays, but also organizes the group present, pays for it, and politely chases others for their share. She's the helper, the doer, the maker-of...
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