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Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo. With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. 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From the New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer, really. Fans of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number know Sloane Crosley’s life as a series of relatable but madcap misadventures. In Look Alive Out There, whether it’s scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, playing herself on Gossip Girl, befriending swingers, or staring down the barrel of the fertility gun, Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and electric one-liners. And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. Crosley has taken up the gauntlets thrown by her predecessors—Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris—and crafted something rare, affecting, and true. Look Alive Out There arrives on the tenth anniversary of I Was Told There’d be Cake, and Crosley’s essays have managed to grow simultaneously more sophisticated and even funnier. And yet she’s still very much herself, and it’s great to have her back—and not a moment too soon (or late, for that matter).","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2bfznk43ek21ynnnnw9my9.jpg?v=44a8ee593e","LJLE._xX%%tS%$krMxi]xpV=R4o~",257,[394],{"id":395,"slug":396,"name":397},"01kp6bp47w9safdqgdwwkjyevb","sloane-crosley-poem","Sloane Crosley",[399,400,401],{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":16},{"id":268,"name":269,"slug":270,"is_fiction":17},{"id":30,"name":31,"slug":32,"is_fiction":16},[],{"pace":205,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":404,"themes":405,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[274,82],[],[407,565,661],{"key":408,"params":409,"works":410},"genre_year",{"genre":27,"year":9},[411,436,463,488,516,540],{"id":412,"slug":413,"title":414,"description":415,"primary_cover_url":416,"cover_blurhash":417,"first_publish_year":9,"community_rating_avg":418,"community_rating_count":78,"page_count":419,"authors":420,"genres":425,"series":431,"enrichment":432},"01kx299cxwsgbg7szj6a3ehman","belong-to-me-ggcb","Belong to Me","“Marisa de los Santos’s Belong to Me is my favorite discovery of the past years: a terrific page-turner that’s also poignant, funny, surprising and deeply heartfelt.” —Harlan Coben “Complex, engaging, and surprisingly moving.” —Boston Globe The sensational New York Times bestseller from Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me is a gift for readers, an enchanting, luminous novel about the accidents, both big and small, that affect our choice of friend, lover, and spouse. A story centered around three very different suburban neighbors and what it truly means to “belong” to someone, this eye-opening, unforgettable book is the perfect book club selection—beautifully written, smart and sophisticated women’s fiction that invites discussion as it touches the heart—and the ideal companion to de los Santos’s previous blockbuster, Love Walked In.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx299cya0sknh0t66qge8kqe.jpg?v=67acd40e4b","LyKw,Qw{s:Rn.kRlWXoe%MW=R*t4","4.00",408,[421],{"id":422,"slug":423,"name":424},"01kx299cy65dd3j0a08d8stfp6","marisa-de-los-santos-v1no","Marisa de los Santos",[426,430],{"id":427,"name":428,"slug":429,"is_fiction":17},33,"Contemporary Romance","contemporary-romance",{"id":26,"name":27,"slug":28,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":76,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":433,"themes":435,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[434,82],"romantic",[],{"id":437,"slug":438,"title":439,"description":440,"primary_cover_url":441,"cover_blurhash":442,"first_publish_year":443,"community_rating_avg":418,"community_rating_count":78,"page_count":344,"authors":444,"genres":449,"series":452,"enrichment":457},"01kx2j7xasf0dc31ba3fepxjss","forever-in-blue-jfkr","Forever in Blue","Four best friends — Lena, Tess, Bridget, and Justin's ex-girlfriend Cleo — reunite for one last summer together as they navigate relationships, a broken engagement, and the aftermath of an abusive relationship. The story concludes the Sisterhood saga with each woman confronting her own past while moving toward an uncertain future.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2j7xc48kvk78af2xsjb06b.jpg?v=9c2a603b17","LUQlg2xY~Lt6U}a#RnjZz=a#9iay",2007,[445],{"id":446,"slug":447,"name":448},"01kn47hmzjw33zx0g0xx6psn83","ann-brashares-mt2a","Ann Brashares",[450,451],{"id":427,"name":428,"slug":429,"is_fiction":17},{"id":26,"name":27,"slug":28,"is_fiction":17},[453],{"id":454,"slug":455,"name":456,"position":418,"is_main_entry":17,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kn45qte4976pndfmzmvk37fs","sisterhood-6axv","Sisterhood",{"pace":76,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":458,"themes":459,"setting_period":7,"summary":440,"content_warnings":7},[434,243],[460,461,462],"coming-of-age","multiple-povs","found-family",{"id":464,"slug":465,"title":466,"description":467,"primary_cover_url":468,"cover_blurhash":469,"first_publish_year":470,"community_rating_avg":418,"community_rating_count":78,"page_count":471,"authors":472,"genres":477,"series":484,"enrichment":485},"01kx2hwfa8vzx67tp45pevj8q9","baby-proof-mrqy","Baby Proof","Is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love? What happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things? First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes--a baby carriage. Isn't that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. 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Her adventures bring her into orbit with Samantha Jones, a bold fashionista who becomes one of her closest friends, and Miranda Hobbes, an opinionated law student. Set against the backdrop of 1980s New York, the novel follows Carrie's coming-of-age as she grapples with a whirlwind romance with an older man while discovering what it means to find her voice in the city.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2d6686s7yr5ckptmt59dbv.jpg?v=77e3d7eecd","LIRB0Xs;?w%3.Pj]IAWBxwofS0WW",2011,446,[498],{"id":499,"slug":500,"name":501},"01kkca4thc0zhnmd401pyq48dg","candace-bushnell-lym2","Candace Bushnell",[503,504],{"id":427,"name":428,"slug":429,"is_fiction":17},{"id":26,"name":27,"slug":28,"is_fiction":17},[506],{"id":507,"slug":508,"name":509,"position":510,"is_main_entry":17,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kqk8qnvp6dkwxb7224z39rc3","the-carrie-diaries-s7yy","The Carrie Diaries","2.00",{"pace":205,"complexity":7,"audience":512,"mood":513,"themes":514,"setting_period":7,"summary":492,"content_warnings":7},"young_adult",[434,243],[460,515],"slow-burn",{"id":517,"slug":518,"title":519,"description":520,"primary_cover_url":521,"cover_blurhash":522,"first_publish_year":443,"community_rating_avg":252,"community_rating_count":78,"page_count":523,"authors":524,"genres":529,"series":536,"enrichment":537},"01kx2kejzw8emerhgyafym4fpz","sin-in-the-second-city-jqut","Sin in the Second City","Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history--and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club's proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh \"butterflies\" awaited their arrival. Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight of Prince Henry of Prussia and recited poetry for Theodore Dreiser. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot's earnings and kept a \"whipper\" on staff to mete out discipline, the Everleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an honest physician, and even tutored in the literature of Balzac.Not everyone appreciated the sisters' attempts to elevate the industry. Rival Levee madams hatched numerous schemes to ruin the Everleighs, including an attempt to frame them for the death of department store heir Marshall Field, Jr. But the sisters' most daunting foes were the Progressive Era reformers, who sent the entire country into a frenzy with lurid tales of \"white slavery\"--the allegedly rampant practice of kidnapping young girls and forcing them into brothels. This furor shaped America's sexual culture and had repercussions all the way to the White House, including the formation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.With a cast of characters that includes Jack Johnson, John Barrymore, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., William Howard Taft, \"Hinky Dink\" Kenna, and Al Capone, Sin in the Second City is Karen Abbott's colorful, nuanced portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters, their world-famous Club, and the perennial clash between our nation's hedonistic impulses and Puritanical roots. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, Sin in the Second City offers a vivid snapshot of America's journey from Victorian-era propriety to twentieth-century modernity.Visit www.sininthesecondcity.com to learn more!Praise for Sin in the Second City:\"Assiduously researched... [Sin in the Second City] describes a popular culture awash in wild tales of sexual abuse, crusading reformers claiming God on their side, and deep suspicion of the threat posed by \"foreigners\" to the nation's Christian values.\" --Janet Maslin, The New York Times \"Lavish in her details, nicely detached in her point of view, [and with] scrupulous concern for historical accuracy, Ms. Abbott has written an immensely readable book. Sin in the Second City offers much in the way of reflection for those interested in the unending puzzle that goes by the name of human nature.\" -- The Wall Street Journal \"Abbott's first book is meticulously researched and entertaining... a colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.\" --The Atlanta Journal Constitution\"With gleaming prose and authoritative knowledge Abbott elucidates one of the most colorful periods in American history, and the result reads like the very best fiction. Sex, opulence, murder -- What's not to love?\" -- Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants\"A detailed and intimate portrait of the Ritz of brothels, the famed Everleigh Club of turn-of-the-century Chicago. 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Now Tehmina is being asked to choose between her old, familiar life in India and a new one in Ohio with her son, his American wife, and their child. She must decide whether to leave the comforting landscape of her native India for the strange rituals of life in a new country.This is a journey Tehmina, a middle-aged Parsi woman, must travel alone.The Parsis were let into India almost a millennium ago because of their promise to \"sweeten\" and enrich the lives of the people in their adopted country. This is an ancient promise that Tehmina takes seriously. And so, while faced with the larger choice of whether to stay in America or not, Tehmina is also confronted with another, more urgent choice: whether to live in America as a stranger or as a citizen. Citizenship implies connection, participation, and involvement. Soon destiny beckons in the form of two young, troubled children next door. It is the plight of these two boys that forces Tehmina to choose. She will either straddle two worlds forever and live in a no-man's land or jump into the fullness of her new life in America.If Today Be Sweet is a novel that celebrates family and community. It is an honest but affectionate look at contemporary America—the sterility of its suburban life, the tinsel of its celebrity culture, but also the generosity of its people and their thirst for connection and communication. Eloquently written, evocative, and unforgettable, If Today Be Sweet is a poignant look at issues of immigration, identity, family life, and hope. It is a novel that shows how cultures can collide and become better for it.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2bce0d0p365hxy1snfr51p.jpg?v=c96882c6e2","LYP?p?oex^xu_NWBxaog9Ef5oLj]",296,[549],{"id":550,"slug":551,"name":552},"01kx2bce055c6barrt36w8vkvb","thrity-n-umrigar-ambm","Thrity N. 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A teacher of African American literature, she has been influenced by an autobiographical tradition that is characterized by a speaking out against racism and a grounding of that expression in one's own experience - an overlapping of the stories of one's own life and the world. Like the stories of that tradition, Lazarre's is a recovery of memories that come together in this book with a new sense of meaning. From a crucial moment in which consciousness is transformed, to recalling and accepting the nature and realities of whiteness, each step describes an aspect of her internal and intellectual journey. Recalling events that opened her eyes to her sons' and husband's experience as Black Americans - an operation, turned into a horrific nightmare by a doctor's unconscious racism; the jarring truths brought home by a visit to an exhibit on slavery at the Richmond Museum of the Confederacy - or her own revealing missteps, Lazarre describes a movement from silence to voice, to a commitment to action, and to an appreciation of the value of a fluid, even ambiguous identity. 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It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx27p2wry0rer1mh14e88b95.jpg?v=16cdd5c67b","LCJNm-11J,X7}WsnWWS3wL}CNcsA",1981,206,[739],{"id":740,"slug":741,"name":742},"01kjq6xkbaaankp8vwpdsa66vm","bell-hooks-osuz","bell hooks",[744,745,746],{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":16},{"id":112,"name":113,"slug":114,"is_fiction":16},{"id":231,"name":232,"slug":233,"is_fiction":16},[],{"pace":241,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":749,"themes":750,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[136,82],[],{"id":752,"slug":753,"title":754,"description":755,"primary_cover_url":756,"cover_blurhash":757,"first_publish_year":758,"community_rating_avg":418,"community_rating_count":78,"page_count":759,"authors":760,"genres":765,"series":769,"enrichment":770},"01kx2bk08tj3mt47crfa5kcsk4","long-live-the-tribe-of-fatherless-girls-ucyq","Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls","\"The book I wish I'd had growing up.\" —Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name Best Books of 2019: Esquire O, The Oprah Magazine Variety Lit Hub Book Riot Electric Literature Autostraddle Finalist: NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Lambda Literary Award New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection Paste Best Memoirs of the Decade Elle Best Books of the Season Washington Post Best Books of the Month Indie Next Pick Indies Introduce Pick \"A fearless debut.\" — New York Times \"[A] gorgeous reckoning.\" — Washington Post \"Flat out breathtaking.\" — Lit Hub \"Gripping and gloriously written.\" — Elle \"Utterly unforgettable.\" — NYLON \"Unnervingly satisfying.\" — Oprah Magazine \"Deeply compassionate.\" —NPR.org \"Truly stunning.\" — Cosmopolitan Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight. As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy and unrequited passion, Paul Monette was haunted, and finally saved, by a dream of \"the thing I'd never even seen: two men in love and laughing.\" Searingly honest, witty, and humane, Becoming a Man is the definitive coming-out story in the classic coming-of-age genre.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2cadddmbj46cs9hrb1a6xc.jpg?v=193235435c","LZN*?vRQ-pxu_OxtRPWB*|RQWVWB",2004,308,[783],{"id":784,"slug":785,"name":786},"01kkvp6860rrg5ndfky7h5ps64","paul-monette-syxx","Paul Monette",[788],{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":16},[],{"pace":76,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":791,"themes":792,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[82,243,562],[],[]]