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Jennifer Dupree Author Of What Do You Want From Me?

From Jennifer's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Jennifer's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Jennifer Dupree Why Jennifer loves this book

I love a complicated mother-daughter story and I love a camp-gone-wrong story and this has both. It's also a retelling of the myth of Persephone and Demeter, so it really ticked so many of my boxes.

By Rachel Lyon ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Fruit of the Dead as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.

Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job…


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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

Book cover of Counting Backwards

Jennifer Dupree Author Of What Do You Want From Me?

From Jennifer's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Jennifer's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Jennifer Dupree Why Jennifer loves this book

Kirshenbaum has the magical way of telling uncomfortable stories and this is no exception. It's a hard story, but it's so well done.

By Binnie Kirshenbaum ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Counting Backwards as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

From the author of Rabbits for Food comes a profound and deeply moving new novel about a middle-aged couple's struggle with the husband's descent into early onset Lewy Body dementia, shot through with Kirshenbaum's signature lacerating humor.

“Gutsy, funny, heart-wrenching.”—The New York Times Book Review

It begins with hallucinations. From their living room window, Leo sees a man on stilts, an acting troupe, a pair of swans paddling on the Manhattan streets below. Then he's unable to perform simple tasks and experiences a host of other erratic disturbances, none of which his doctors can explain. Leo, fifty-three, a research scientist,…


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