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The Weight of Temptation

November 3, 2012

Weight of Temptation

Marina Rubin is overweight by about 65 pounds. She has reached the point well past doctors, diet plans, and pills, and is ready for extreme measures, so she signs up for 3 months at a weight loss ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, social issues

Accelerated

October 29, 2012

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Sean is an artist working as an editor at a celebrity rag while trying to take care of his 8-year-old son, Toby. Several months ago his network executive wife decided she needed “time away” to find ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, New York City, Pegasus, social issues

Back to Blood

October 26, 2012

Back to Blood

Religion is dying…but everybody still has to believe in something. It would be intolerable—you couldn’t stand it—to finally have to say to yourself, “Why keep pretending? I’m nothing but a random ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, Little Brown and Company, satire, social issues

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

September 10, 2012

people of forever

Coming-of-age in Israel means something very different than it does in most countries. At 18 all Israeli youth must serve two years in the Israeli Defense Forces. In The People of Forever Are Not ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, Hogarth, Israel, Middle East, social issues

The Submission by Amy Waldman

July 13, 2012

submission

  An anonymous competition to design the 9/11 memorial in NYC. A panel of 13 judges including the widow of a man who died in one of the towers. A winner who turns out to be a Muslim. With ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, debut, Farrar Straus Giroux, Manhattan, social issues

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