Last Night in Brooklyn
by Xochitl Gonzalez
Flatiron Books/Macmillan
You don't need to have ever been to Brooklyn to enjoy this story of a group of friends having one last blast of a summer. Warm, funny and just a bit sad, beautifully told - a great, easy but thoughtful read.
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by Ali Smith
Pantheon/PRH
Sisters who've been estranged, a loss which leads to too much imagination (can there be?), all of the horrors people inflict upon each other, ghosts and a horse that leads to a reconciliation. This is warm and sad and a reminder that war, 'though it's always been with us, has never been right.
I'm going to have to read everything she's written.
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Charlie Jane Anders
Tor/Macmillan
Friendship, what it needs and what it can bring, and whether it just might be able to save the world. This is a thoughtful and frightening novel about the kinds of destruction, 10 years after this was published, we are doing.
Take it as a warning, but a charming and very readable one.
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by Portia Elan
Scribner/S&S
There is so much going on and yet it all hangs together beautifully. Difficult family, found families, lost family, ocean travel, space travel, AI, computer games and above all else, a deep sense of caring.
This is great fun and gives a sense of hope for us all.
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by Simone St. James
Berkley/PRH
Sometimes you just need a good ghost story. This is definitely that. The town of Fell, New York is not on anyone's list of vacation spots and the three Esmie siblings are not thrilled about returning but feel that they have to when their landscaper quits.
That's all I'll say, but this is a fun, escapist read.
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