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The Little Clan is about a 25 year old running the library of a private arts club in Manhattan. I impulse bought it for literary references and I thought it would be a light read. It is not. It is chock full of angst and sorrow and striving and miscommunication and struggles as only finding your way in your early 20‘s can be. It gets quite overwhelming with all the weight of so many emotions and stresses. But it‘s compelling and vivid.

I‘m finding the main characters a bit hard to engage with

Working in a library is becoming bad or my health. I have about 30 books checked out at the moment. Send help! #librarybookhaul #bookhaul #minibookhaul

I liked it fine, but the characters were all so mean to each other. I didn't like that at all. I mean, they were realistically written, but in the most pessimistic way possible. Literature can be fun if we give it a chance.

Ava and Stephanie manage to take the quaint
idea of a 19th century literary salon and ruin it by being angsty and selfish and more than a little idiotic. It's clear that Cohen is writing this way on purpose, but even so.

A diorama of a dead civilization casting a spell.

This is a coming of age story I found predictable. Because of that, the many archaic literary references & the spoiled and utterly self-absorbed main characters, a snobby bookworm & a determined beauty queen, I found myself completely unable to empathize with either of them or the storyline.

Loved this in the beginning, about an awkward twenty something working in a private library/club in New York. Then her "best friend" returns and causes havoc. Ultimately too much friend stuff, pacing off, would have liked a more extended ending.

This #April2018 release looks really interesting! 25-year-old Ava is the resident librarian at a Manhattan arts club full of eccentric geriatrics. She‘s perfectly happy with her quiet life until globetrotting friend Stephanie returns with a plan to make Ava into a celebrity writer by starting a literary salon. What could go wrong with this plan? #BlameItOnLitsy #BlameBookishMarginalia #ParkRowBooks