The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling (debut)
Publisher: MCD
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Length: 304
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A series of missteps have rendered Daphne a single-mother to a young toddler, but after holding it together for months, Daphne suddenly finds she just can’t do it all any longer….

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The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Length: 256 pages
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Annie, left widowed and pregnant, finds herself taken under the wing of a group of Catholic nuns, determined that Annie and her child will have lives well lived….

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Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Length: 320 pages
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Sometimes a book just screams to be discussed and Gabrielle Zevin’s new novel, Young Jane Young, is one such book. The much loved author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry has people buzzing about some of the very different turns used in her latest book. Readers who had looked at the book’s description on Goodreads might have been better prepared for the oddities of this book, but those of us who perused Amazon or Algonquin Books got a close, but slightly less forthcoming description….

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