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The Guest: A Novel by Emma Cline

May 18, 2023

guest

Alex has spent her adult years learning from her mistakes, especially when it comes to men. More specifically, men with money, the only kind who interest her. She’s 22 and has been living in Manhattan ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, literary, vacation reading

The Girls

June 27, 2016

girls

I wanted them to like me.  Such a simple sentence. Six words, and yet, coming three-fourths of the way through Emma Cline’s debut novel The Girls, they hold the key to the entire novel. They are ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1960s, book clubs, coming-of-age, Random House

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