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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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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A moving story about ambition, sacrifice, motherhood, and the people who help us become who we're meant to be.
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Auggie Pullman is just a regular kid the summer before fifth grade…except he’s always been homeschooled because of a combination of rare genetic disorders that’s left his face severely deformed. But h...
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 ...
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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...
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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