First of all, I love Steven Rowley. Heâs hilarious, whip-smart, and writes beautifully. He moves you without ever making you take yourself too seriously.
Rowley has a quality I appreciate sincerely in the people around me and in the art I consume: he can make you laugh in the darkest moment. Gallows humor, but never callous.Â
The Celebrants feels deeply lived-in, centered around a group of friends I missed before the book was even over. The characters felt so authentic and connected to each other that I felt a little left out in the beginningâas I would have if Iâd appeared in the living room with them in Big Sur. But by the end, they had welcomed me in.
New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promisesâespecially to ourselvesâby the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle.
Itâs been a minuteâor five yearsâsince Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years theyâve reunitedâŚ
A
ghosty book set on the sun-drenched Amalfi coast? Sign me up.
This book sparkled
with mystery, intrigue, and an enchanting bit of magic. The mother-daughter
relationship felt real and affecting, and by the end, I was nostalgic for a life
I had never lived.
âRebecca Serle is a maestro of love in all its forms.â âGabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author
The New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years returns with a powerful novel about the transformational love between mothers and daughters set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast.
When Katyâs mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasnât just Katyâs mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse,âŚ
Benoit's memoir reminded me that I
am part of millennial womanhood. The cool-girl-who-pretends-to-be-chill-by-basically-acting-like-a-stupid-dude
thing is not unique to my embarrassing early twenties, for example.
This book is
laugh-out-loud hilarious and wry, and by the end, I wanted to be Benoit's best
friend.Â
From Bustle columnist and Twitter sensation Sophia Benoit, this âcharming and often laugh-out-loud funnyâ (Vogue) memoir-in-essays explores the ins and outs of modern womanhoodâfrom finding feminism, the power of pop culture, and how to navigate lifeâs constant double standardsâperfect for fans of Shrill and PEN15.
Like so many women, Sophia spent her formative years struggling to do the ârightâ thingâto make others comfortable, to take minimal and calculated risks, to live up to societyâs expectationsâonly to realize that there was so little payoff to this tiresome balancing act. Tired of trying so hard, Sophia finally let go of the crushingâŚ
It's hard to be the new girlâespecially when she's filling the spot at an exclusive boarding school formerly held by perfect Becca, the girl everyone loved. Beccaâthe girl who disappeared and may or may not be gone.
Everyone acts like it's my fault that infallible, beloved Becca is gone and has been replaced by not perfect, completely fallible, unknown Me.
Then, there's the name on my lips: Max Holloway. Becca's ex. The one boy I should avoid but can't. And as much as I'm starting to like it at Manderley, I can't help but think she's out there, somewhere, watching me take her place and waiting to take it back.
