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Sarah Berke
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A moving story about ambition, sacrifice, motherhood, and the people who help us become who we're meant to be.
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A queer mountain lion observes the human condition with a closeness that hits harder because they don't understand what they're seeing. Strange, heartbreaking, thought provoking.
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It’s hard to explain this book in a way that will do it justice. It’s a deeply intimate experiencing of something most of us have been through: young, fervent, all consuming love. #Booksky #LilyKing #HeartTheLover #LiteraryFiction #FiveStarRead
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You can check out my full review here (and please do!!!) but I found this novel deeply affecting, a gorgeous commentary on motherhood—it’s meanings, how we fail mothers, and how mothers can save each other.
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The choices we make—the empathy we show kids, the ways we encourage them to use their voice and think critically, the messages we give them—are forming the foundation for how they interact with the world now.
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Tell the Wolves I’m Home is about June Elbus, a fourteen-year-old-girl in the late 80s whose uncle—and best friend, confidante, and first love—dies of AIDS. It rocks June to her core, but his slow death also triggers other fractures in her family.
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Sarah Berke
This book is a reminder of what’s most important, a testament to the power of vulnerability, and a work of art spun beautifully. It’s heartbreaking—achingly so—but also letter by letter paints a portrait of what it really means to live.
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I picked this up expecting something fun and relatively uncomplicated—I was ready for swoony and sweet, maybe (hopefully!) a little spicy. What I didn’t expect was how every emotional beat is earned.
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Spectacular Things is a moving, character-driven story about ambition, sacrifice, motherhood, and the people who help us become who we're meant to be. As a mom of daughters, Mia and Cricket's relation...
The narrator of Heart the Lover, nicknamed Jordan throughout, meets two boys and best friends her senior year of college. She joins their world fully and passionately, falling in love with both, but i...
Open Throat by Henry Hoke is about a mountain lion narrating their own displacement through LA. The lion observes the human condition—cell phones, climate change, unhoused neighbors—with a closeness ...
