Eagerly Awaiting: July 2022
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Sadie Green and Sam Masur share an exceptional friendship--forged in the gaming room of the children's hospital, their connection is both fractious and unparalleled. As a renowned videogame-making duo, they are unstoppable. As individuals, their complicated lives--with their different backgrounds, ambitions, loves, and losses--leave them often unable to see eye-to-eye. Their thirty-year saga brims with potency. For me, it was deep balm in an anxious moment, a means of exploring other lives when my own felt like too much to bear. This book is momentous, heartbreaking, impossible to put down. It invites its reader to play, to experiment and create and love and game, with wild abandon. Easily one of the best books of the year; likely one of the best I'll ever read. --Talia
Weird and disturbing in all the right ways...yet another stunner from Murata! --Jennie
After finding an entry-level job at a TV network, the novel's unnamed protagonist is determined to give it her all, despite seeing the power dynamics at play and hearing stories about sexual misconduct. In the end, she will have to choose--her career or her empowerment as a woman. Isabel Kaplan's adult debut is an extremely smart, darkly humorous, and intense novel--one that is especially timely during the era of #metoo. --Jennie
Fellowship Point reads like an Edith Wharton novel set in the 21st century. This beautifully-crafted saga of two old friends discovering new facets of each other, and themselves, is completely absorbing, good for the soul, and as bracing as a coastal breeze in Maine. --Maggie
This book is terrific: full of family strife and pressure that builds from the impending disasters, both familial and climatic. Holsinger has created a palatable atmosphere of foreboding from which you can't tear yourself away. Highly recommended! --Maggie
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In a continuation of the first, Mosscap and Sibling Dex are still working on answering the first question: what do people need? Here, they expand their audience to riverside towns and isolated low-tech villages. This novella is like a hug, a little joy that affirms the worth and value of all people and readers. Its melodic optimism is much-needed and a welcome escape from reality. --Jordan
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Raised on 'Murder, She Wrote', I pride myself on my detecting skills. This well-crafted thriller had me second-guessing my instincts the whole way through. Good dark fun. --Maggie
This behind-closed-doors (of the stinking rich) saga skewers power players in LA, and it will have you on the edge of your seat 'till the very end. Gloriously entertaining and thought-provoking, The Work Wife is the feminist summer read you've been waiting for. --Maggie
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Rich folks partying and behaving in a destructive manner as the world around them is literally engulfed in forest fires forms the basis for this darkly humorous satire. A PERFECT read for anyone who enjoyed HBO's The White Lotus! --Jennie
