Category: Reviews
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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
A Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.
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American Mermaid
A funny debut novel that follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood’s violations.
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Under the Banner of Heaven
A multi-layered work of investigative journalism that explores a savage double murder within one of America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities.
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Dirty Work
A paradigm-shifting report of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs.
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
A paradigm-shifting report of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs.
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The Drift
Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world.
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My Name is Lucy Barton
A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter, despite their complicated past.
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The Writing Retreat
The Plot meets Please Join Us in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare.
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Small Game
A survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wilds.
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Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
For fans of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community.
