A tenacious entrepreneur finds herself facing one heartbreak after another. Down but not defeated, she puts her inherent skills to use by launching a detective agency. Her cases start with awol husbands, con-men, and disobedient daughters, but when a local child goes missing, her abilities are put to the test. Does she have what it takes when it counts?
A dystopian novel that becomes more evocative as reality mirrors its bleak fiction, 1984 is a vision of a world controlled by a totalitarian regime where not even your thoughts are safe.
Readers and friends, we’re proud to bring you a very special bonus episode. Last Tuesday, Kiley Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age, was released in paperback. In celebration of the new format, we were thrilled to interview the awarded author.
Virtual Event: An Evening with Kiley Reid in Celebration of Such a Fun Age’s Paperback Release
- April 16, 2021
- Tagged as: Fiction
You’re invited to join us at an incredible virtual event celebrating the paperback release of Kiley Reid’s best-selling novel Such a Fun Age!
A story about life, living, and the regrets in between, The Midnight Library is a unique invention created to tell a universal truth. It allows the reader to make some secret personal applications with the lessons of our protagonist and her desire to end it all. This story is like our better selves, begging us to listen, putting the medicine in the candy, and it does it all within 300 pages.
Freedom is knowing who you are while unobstructedly stretching toward your potential or something like that. Look, we’re not as deep as Toni Morrison, but after reading this, the author’s third novel, we were inspired to wax poetic about existential topics like survival and identity.
As Beyoncé said, "This is for the 30-somethings that didn't turn out exactly how mom and dad wanted you to be." Convenience Store Woman is the deadpan tale of one woman's happy life in a simple occupation before conformity-obsessed friends, family members, and strangers pressure her into confusion and despair.
Our headstrong heroine must rely on happenstance and privilege to complete her fiendish mission and remain the queen bee of her hive. The messy meddler: Nancy Drew.
AN EXTRA SPECIAL EPISODE: Acclaimed author Liz Moore joins us – US?! – to discuss her book, Long Bright River.
“You can have too much choice in this world. And when everyone has too much choice, it is also much harder to get chosen. And we all want to be chosen.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
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