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Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth at a baby shower, or a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, the irascible Olive improbably touches the lives of others.\"--Provided by publisher.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx290zsr1ajgqw7pga64pzft.jpg?v=f59dad3bfc","L18XkB?a00#RyZoIyAt601IC%#F|",[220],{"id":221,"slug":222,"name":223},"01kr9mkqrf24jf52qh2xct1d6n","elizabeth-strout-udfi","Elizabeth Strout",[225,226],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":227,"name":228,"slug":229,"is_fiction":18},15,"Drama","drama",[],{"pace":101,"complexity":7,"audience":62,"mood":232,"themes":235,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[233,234],"melancholic","reflective",[],{"id":237,"slug":238,"title":239,"description":240,"primary_cover_url":241,"cover_blurhash":242,"first_publish_year":136,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":243,"authors":244,"genres":249,"series":255,"enrichment":256},"01kx27yvwbyk5c0h8w9fc4szcq","magical-negro-ipjm","Magical Negro","Parker presents an archive of black everydayness; a catalog of contemporary folk heroes. Her poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration. She connects themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification while exploring the troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. -- adapted from front flap \"Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. Focused primarily on depictions of Black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics?of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience. 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In these poems are living documents, pleas, latent traumas, inside jokes, and unspoken anxieties situated as firmly in the past as in the present?timeless black melancholies and triumphs.\"--Publisher's description.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx27yvws6p762h9fm174164w.jpg?v=fc4e6eeb98","L2CrcZ%003afl;s.kps.00WB~9oe",88,[245],{"id":246,"slug":247,"name":248},"01kx27yvwnp3b5w02gqejaxcp1","morgan-parker-dnby","Morgan Parker",[250,254],{"id":251,"name":252,"slug":253,"is_fiction":18},13,"Poetry","poetry",{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":101,"complexity":7,"audience":62,"mood":257,"themes":259,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[233,234,258],"thought-provoking",[],{"id":261,"slug":262,"title":263,"description":264,"primary_cover_url":265,"cover_blurhash":266,"first_publish_year":267,"community_rating_avg":191,"community_rating_count":84,"page_count":268,"authors":269,"genres":274,"series":276,"enrichment":282},"01kx28e4x4y0h4td2chrd7919z","michael-tolliver-lives-49i3","Michael Tolliver Lives","A gay man living with HIV returns home to San Francisco after decades away, reconnecting with old friends from a shared past while navigating his own aging and the city's transformation since the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx28e4z35mzbktjg1j7n6074.jpg?v=c2f0a2cd44","LVOf%:SP}~oy=;Wsbck8kBkAI^S6",2007,336,[270],{"id":271,"slug":272,"name":273},"01kq4nrpkx6e592mhzyn28be8q","armistead-maupin-gtwi","Armistead Maupin",[275],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},[277],{"id":278,"slug":279,"name":280,"position":281,"is_main_entry":18,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kndaxgt6pfzy8fcqe8k5h2kc","tales-of-the-city-069w","Tales of the City","7.00",{"pace":101,"complexity":7,"audience":62,"mood":283,"themes":285,"setting_period":7,"summary":264,"content_warnings":7},[284,234],"nostalgic",[],{"id":287,"slug":288,"title":289,"description":290,"primary_cover_url":291,"cover_blurhash":292,"first_publish_year":293,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":294,"authors":295,"genres":300,"series":306,"enrichment":307},"01kx2864hm1xb4nz0jmr8b285s","the-world-we-found-bzgf","The World We Found","“Stunning . . . . This is a novel that rewards reading, and even re-reading. The World We Found is a powerful meditation.” —Boston Globe Thrity Umrigar, acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven, returns with a breathtaking new novel—a skillfully wrought, emotionally resonant story of four women and the indelible friendship they share As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world. But over the past thirty years, the quartet has drifted apart, the day-to-day demands of work and family tempering the revolutionary fervor they once shared. Then comes devastating news: Armaiti, who moved to America, is gravely ill and wants to see the old friends she left behind. For Laleh, reunion is a bittersweet reminder of unfulfilled dreams and unspoken guilt. For Kavita, it is an admission of forbidden passion. For Nishta, it is the promise of freedom from a bitter, fundamentalist husband. And for Armaiti, it is an act of acceptance, of letting go on her own terms. The World We Found is a dazzling masterwork from the remarkable Thrity Umrigar, offering an unforgettable portrait of modern India while it explores the enduring bonds of friendship and the power of love to change lives.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2864j1v6cyh4qtsz1tmq31.jpg?v=1589a9f41a","LTOC1YpZ?ZQ.yWWGiwX8~TVZE4jE",2012,221,[296],{"id":297,"slug":298,"name":299},"01kx241wmna6h9pkfq26sn3jj2","thrity-umrigar-ztpe","Thrity Umrigar",[301,302],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":303,"name":304,"slug":305,"is_fiction":18},144,"Women's Fiction","womens-fiction",[],{"pace":60,"complexity":7,"audience":62,"mood":308,"themes":310,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[309,234],"emotional",[],{"id":312,"slug":313,"title":314,"description":315,"primary_cover_url":316,"cover_blurhash":317,"first_publish_year":318,"community_rating_avg":319,"community_rating_count":84,"page_count":320,"authors":321,"genres":326,"series":335,"enrichment":336},"01kx27zkw6fzvs5dmyb08qx2gy","missing-mom-wyyv","Missing Mom","When Nikki Eaton's estranged mother is murdered by a drug dealer and left for dead on her doorstep, the investigation pulls together three women bound to her: Nikki, who has spent years burying her own history of abuse; Gwen's sister, an older woman with a different set of secrets; and their neighbor, whose affair with Nikki complicates everything. As the truth about what happened that night unravels, Oates weaves a story of addiction, survival, and the bonds women forge in the wake of tragedy.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx27zkwrp61qmn6d25y6rjv7.jpg?v=f5cfa4ddcc","LNO{~u4TE2T0S}R.%MoK~q_2r;%1",2005,"3.00",464,[322],{"id":323,"slug":324,"name":325},"01kjqz7rcx57hxmrtgvy1f2bzp","joyce-carol-oates-9utl","Joyce Carol Oates",[327,328,332],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":329,"name":330,"slug":331,"is_fiction":18},44,"Crime","crime",{"id":57,"name":333,"slug":334,"is_fiction":18},"Literary Fiction","literary-fiction",[],{"pace":206,"complexity":7,"audience":62,"mood":337,"themes":338,"setting_period":7,"summary":315,"content_warnings":7},[209,208],[],[340,415,492,523],{"key":341,"params":342,"works":343},"theme",{"theme":67},[344,393],{"id":345,"slug":346,"title":347,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":348,"cover_blurhash":349,"first_publish_year":350,"community_rating_avg":99,"community_rating_count":84,"page_count":351,"authors":352,"genres":361,"series":386,"enrichment":387},"01kqye2ygq4t6dg7hgv2fg5wjd","hocus-pocus-rze6","Hocus Pocus","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kqye2yjtt5cs7c067cg4nqk2.jpg","LPH-oSV[x_t7*JRjt8fixuxZM{WB",2022,240,[353,357],{"id":354,"slug":355,"name":356},"01kqye2yjptt26rhsqfqsxmyf4","a-w-jantha-ym8w","A. 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Available for a limited time while supplies last. From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult speculative debut, a stand-alone novel blending time travel and globe-hopping adventure, art history, and dark fantasy about magical paintings and the lengths people will go to collect them, destroy them...or be destroyed. A picture is worth a thousand nightmares. Art has always been an escape for struggling painter Lewis Dixon. But other than his mom, who has recently passed away, no one has ever praised his work. If he is being honest, there's really no one in his life. So he is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in his art. This is his chance to show the world what he's capable of...he just has no idea that he might also be saving the world at the same time. As Lewis soon learns, he has not been invited to participate in a curated show, but rather a test: to see if the fugue-like exhilaration he experiences when painting is actually magic, a power that allows him to enter nine very special paintings--paintings made by his great-grandfather. Spread across the globe, these paintings have unbelievable eldritch abilities...and not necessarily beneficial ones. In terms of power, these are the most valuable works of art in the world, and there are those out there who would do anything to possess just one. And Lewis, upon passing the test, has been asked to destroy them all. Partnered with an alluring agent in museum's employ, Noah Rao, Lewis must travel to Japan, Australia, Nigeria--and the past--plunging himself into a world of black markets, gothic magic, ancient history, and cursed objects to save those unlucky enough to call any of the paintings their own--or to free the world from those who would misuse the power of the paintings. 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Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving in its adherence to tradition, faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives; it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning. Vera, a young girl when her mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. Reveling in their gossip, they witness each other in motherhood, waiting for signs: this one devotes herself to her child too much, this one not enough—that must surely draw the affliction’s gaze. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear? Provocative and hypnotic, Alexis Schaitkin’s Elsewhere is at once a spellbinding revelation and a rumination on the mysterious task of motherhood and all the ways in which a woman can lose herself to it; the self-monitoring and judgment, the doubts and unknowns, and the legacy she leaves behind.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx24vfv4fkdmy5xbd22mm6vf.jpg?v=37029be765","L9P6dPEm1A?b+VRk$wNJD8R.-2xZ",217,[536],{"id":537,"slug":538,"name":539},"01kx24vftzx3qeb3t4b2t6ppym","alexis-schaitkin-islm","Alexis Schaitkin",[541,542],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":227,"name":228,"slug":229,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":101,"complexity":7,"audience":62,"mood":545,"themes":546,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[233,234],[],{"id":548,"slug":549,"title":550,"description":551,"primary_cover_url":552,"cover_blurhash":553,"first_publish_year":554,"community_rating_avg":319,"community_rating_count":84,"page_count":268,"authors":555,"genres":568,"series":571,"enrichment":572},"01kx2542hzjtehm55ry20dc5jx","the-expatriates-ctxm","The Expatriates","Product Description \"Devastating and heartwarming, and exquisite in every way, this is a book you’ll fall deeply in love with and never want to put down.” —Kevin KwanFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller The Piano Teacher, a beautiful, transporting novel about motherhood, marriage, and friendship Janice Y. K. Lee’s blockbuster hit debut, The Piano Teacher, was called “immensely satisfying” by People, “intensely readable” by O, The Oprah Magazine, and “a rare and exquisite story” by Elizabeth Gilbert. Now, in her long-awaited new novel, Lee explores with devastating poignancy the emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in the same small expat community in Hong Kong. Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she believes could save her foundering marriage. Meanwhile, Margaret, once a happily married mother of three, questions her maternal identity in the wake of a shattering loss. As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all. Atmospheric, moving, and utterly compelling, The Expatriates confirms Lee as an exceptional talent and one of our keenest observers of women’s inner lives. From the Hardcover edition. About the Author Janice YK Lee was born and raised in Hong Kong. She received a BA in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard College. A former editor at Elle magazine, Lee lives in New York with her husband and four children. From the Hardcover edition.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2542jjf32c5c53v60ssmr7.jpg?v=b179cc25b8","L9Bfw,I:IW%ME.^l%MMx~DX9r;tR",2016,[556,560,564],{"id":557,"slug":558,"name":559},"01kx2542j9k90q79054155tx1x","janice-y-k-lee-au8f","Janice Y. K. Lee",{"id":561,"slug":562,"name":563},"01kx2542jbcbnn80nxzf7k5bv5","lee-janice-yk-omcp","Lee, Janice Y.K.",{"id":565,"slug":566,"name":567},"01kx2542jep9tsnd38brtz4tgs","lee-janice-y-k-ml86","Lee, Janice Y. 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The lives of the Parsi men and women who grew up together in Wadi Baug are revealed in all their complicated humanity: Adi Patel's disintegration into alcoholism; Dosamai's gossiping tongue; and Soli Contractor's betrayal and heartbreak. And observing it all is Rusi Bilimoria, a disillusioned businessman who struggles to make sense of his life and hold together a fraying community. \"[Umrigar's] heartfelt book . . . displays an impressive talent for conceiving multidimensional, sympathetic characters with lifelike emotional quandaries and psychological stumbling blocks.\" — The Washington Post Book World \"Bombay throbs with the life and death, crowded, hot, dirty, and volatile . . . [This novel] is a warmhearted look at human nature, with all its strengths and flaws exposed.\" — The Cleveland Plain Dealer \"Thrity Umrigar has an acute ear for dialogue, and a gift for unmasking the complexities of personal relationships. 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Homes as one of the most provocative and daring writers of her generation. Here you'll find the cult classic, A Real Doll, the tale of a teenage boy's erotic obsession with his sister's Barbie doll; Adults Alone, which first introduced Paul and Elaine, the crack-smoking yuppie couple whose marriage careens out of control in Homes's novel Music for Torching; and Looking for Johnny, in which a kidnapped boy, having failed his abductors' expectations, is returned home.Brilliantly conceived and sharply etched, these stories explore the American dream in ways readers cannot forget. Working in Kodacolor hues, Homes offers an uncanny picture of a surreal suburbia -- outrageous and utterly believable.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fcontributions\u002Fwork\u002F01\u002F01kx24r6mag3enf51683esxgr0_6a4eecc0492c4.jpg?v=1b9cd227f4","L1Cjq_.AI8-@00IRW@Mv00j]tURi",1999,173,[603],{"id":604,"slug":605,"name":606},"01kmfvywxtnptda5syjjsh8z92","a-m-homes-bcoy","A. M. 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