Deceptively simple and poetic.

Jury's still out on this book but this is a perfect description of overly-aggressive air conditioning.

Wow.

I felt the author just didn't get love, relationships, or attachment at all. Also the power imbalance REALLY bothered me. Magnanimous older lover wants to find least harmful way to instruct and then abandon virgin girl. Gross. disappointing bc it put me off her nonfiction book Come As You Are too

An American ballerina helps a Cold War-era Russian dancer defect, but there are still consequences decades later for everyone involved.

Terrific, taut thriller about the first Black police officers in 1948 Atlanta. When a young Black woman last seen with a white man turns up dead, Black officers Boggs & Smith try to seek justice in a world where they cannot trust white police and their authority is tampered. Eerily prescient today.

This beautiful and poetic novel tells the story of August, who came to Bushwick from Tennessee with her father and brother in the 1070s. At first blinded by culture shock, she soon finds solace in the friendship of three other girls from the neighborhood, who walk the streets like they own them.

Both a coming-of-age story and a coming-to-New York story, but with a lovely, sincere voice and the twist that everything is viewed through the lens of food & appetite. Sweetbitter is bursting with visceral animal want, not just for food but for affection, for the mess of life and experience itself.

This sweet coming-of-age story pulls out every Southern Gothic cliche in the canon, but it's so big-hearted and genuine it makes it all work.Seven-year-old Rocky grows up in the 1970s in a prosaic Virginia town. Reminiscent of Donna Tartt & Harper Lee, Tarkington's Southern voice is warm and true.