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Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Literary Fiction · Romance
This historical love story fits readers who want emotional stakes, found family, and wonder threaded with risk.

Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Atmosphere follows ambition, longing, and love against the pressure of a space program where every choice carries weight. Joan Goodwin leaves a quiet academic life for NASA’s 1980s shuttle training, where new friendships, fierce competition, and an unexpected love force her to reconsider the shape of her future. This historical love story fits readers who want emotional stakes, found family, and wonder threaded with risk.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
“Thrilling . . . heartbreaking . . . uplifting . . . the fast-paced, emotionally charged story of one ambitious young woman, finding both her voice and her passion.”—Kristin Hannah, author of The Women
“NASA? Space missions? The ’80s? This is a collection of all the things I love.”—Andy Weir, author of Project Hail Mary and The Martian
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, People, Good Housekeeping, them, Marie Claire, Seattle Times, Book Riot, Library Journal, Chicago Public Library, She Reads, Denver Public Library
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.
As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.
Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.
Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.
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The Last Stars in the Sky
Kate Hewitt
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
The Last Stars in the Sky begins with a family retreat that feels like a second chance, then turns into a survival story when the world collapses overnight.

The Last Stars in the Sky
Kate Hewitt
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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The Last Stars in the Sky begins with a family retreat that feels like a second chance, then turns into a survival story when the world collapses overnight. At an isolated cottage on Lost Lake, one mother tries to protect her daughters while facing a broken marriage, a vanished normal life, and impossible choices. This is emotional apocalyptic fiction grounded in family, fear, and endurance.
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An unforgettable and heartbreaking story about one woman’s determination to keep her family together when the world falls apart.
“Mom, why are you so mad at Dad?”
“I’m not,” I say, which isn’t exactly true. Putting on a brave face for my two young daughters—pretending everything is fine in my marriage—has been hard. That, and losing the house after Daniel lied to me.
I never expected to have to uproot my family to go live in my parents’ isolated cottage on Lost Lake. It’s twenty miles to the nearest town, an insignificant speck in endless pine forests. Nobody’s lived here for a decade.
Now, I pick up a rusty pail from its nest of autumn leaves and turn to my daughter. Suddenly, I recall how I used to help my own mother pick wild strawberries up here as a little girl. Maybe, this isn’t a punishment. Maybe this place will be the making of our family.
Later, I’ll hold on to these memories—ghostly shreds of another life. Because just eight hours after I tucked my daughters into bed, feeling so hopeful, the world as I knew it—as anyone knew it—was gone for good.
What do you do when the worst thing in the world happens to your family? A gripping, beautiful story that will break your heart from a million-copy bestselling author. For fans of Boo Walker, Where the Forest Meets the Stars and Julianne MacLean.
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A Family Affair
Robyn Carr
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
A Family Affair follows a woman whose carefully managed life fractures after sudden loss reveals the secrets her marriage had been hiding.

A Family Affair
Robyn Carr
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
Our take
A Family Affair follows a woman whose carefully managed life fractures after sudden loss reveals the secrets her marriage had been hiding. Anna must navigate grief, betrayal, her children’s pain, and her mother’s declining health while searching for answers she no longer knows how to find, making this a grounded women’s fiction drama about family, resilience, and rebuilding when certainty disappears.
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Life’s biggest dilemmas can provide its sweetest rewards
Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she’s worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn’t. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in "till death do us part." Now an empty nester, she’s at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future.
But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna’s carefully constructed world falls apart. The mysterious young woman at the memorial service confirms her husband had been keeping secrets, and Anna is determined to get to the truth.
For once, she doesn’t have the answers. Her kids are struggling with their grief, her mother’s health is in decline and Anna needs closure. Faced with one challenge after another, she finds support from an unexpected source. And as she puts her life back together, Anna realizes the McNichols may not be perfect but they’ll always be family, and family is forever.
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Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
This will appeal to readers who want YA contemporary fiction about mental health, identity, friendship, and finding a place to belong.

Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · Contemporary Fiction
Our take
A New York Times bestseller, Every Last Word follows Samantha McAllister, a popular girl hiding Purely-Obsessional OCD, toxic friendships, and weekly psychiatrist visits until a new friend introduces her to a secret poetry room and a group of misfits, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 5,500 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want YA contemporary fiction about mental health, identity, friendship, and finding a place to belong.
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The New York Times bestseller everyone is talking about.
If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.
Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off.
Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam's weekly visits to her psychiatrist.
Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.
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Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
On a failing island at the edge of the world, a stranger’s arrival unsettles a family already living under the weight of isolation, grief, and rising seas.

Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
Our take
On a failing island at the edge of the world, a stranger’s arrival unsettles a family already living under the weight of isolation, grief, and rising seas. In Wild Dark Shore, a mysterious woman washes ashore as secrets begin to surface among the last caretakers of a remote seed bank. This novel blends atmospheric tension, emotional intimacy, and ecological dread into a story about trust, survival, and the cost of protecting what remains.
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REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB'S BOOK OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, TIME, USA Today, The Economist,Scientific American, Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest,BuzzFeed, BookRiot, HuffPost, Jezebel, The Globe and Mail, Kirkus, and more!)
"A breathtaking novel of ROMANCE, MYSTERY, AND TWISTS that will shock you...I love this book so much." —Reese Witherspoon
"A WILDLY TALENTED writer." ―Emily St. John Mandel
“Absolutely ASTONISHING. McConaghy's writing knocks me over every time.” —Fredrik Backman
“SPELLBINDING...Exceptionally imagined, thoroughly humane.” —Washington Post
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.
Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.
But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.
A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
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Kapitoil
Teddy Wayne
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
In Kapitoil, ambition and dislocation shape a young man’s uneasy rise through New York’s finance world on the edge of Y2K.

Kapitoil
Teddy Wayne
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
Our take
In Kapitoil, ambition and dislocation shape a young man’s uneasy rise through New York’s finance world on the edge of Y2K. Karim arrives armed with brilliance and logic, only to find that success, loyalty, and belonging are far harder to calculate. This is literary fiction with a sharp corporate setting, cultural tension, and a coming-of-age arc shaped by identity and moral conflict.
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"A brilliant book. Karim Issar is one of the freshest, funniest heroes I've come across in a long time" in this coming of age novel set in NYC during Y2K (Ben Fountain, bestselling author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara).
"Sometimes you do not truly observe something until you study it in reverse," writes Karim Issar upon arrival to New York City from Qatar in 1999. Fluent in numbers, logic, and business jargon yet often baffled by human connection, the young financial wizard soon creates a computer program named Kapitoil that predicts oil futures and reaps record profits for his company.
At first an introspective loner adrift in New York's social scenes, he anchors himself to his legendary boss Derek Schrub and Rebecca, a sensitive, disillusioned colleague who may understand him better than he does himself. Her influence, and his father's disapproval of Karim's Americanization, cause him to question the moral implications of Kapitoil, moving him toward a decision that will determine his future, his firm's, and to whom—and where—his loyalties lie.
"An innovative and incisive meditation on the wages of corporate greed, the fundamental darkness of its vision lit by the author's great comic intelligence and wit." — Kathryn Davis, author of The Thin Place, Hell: A Novel, and Versailles
"[A] strong and heartfelt debut." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"This wonderfully assured debut novel, at once poignant, insightful, and funny, details Karim's passage through a new world of corporate sharks, Manhattan clubs, museums, Bob Dylan lyrics, and personal growth." —Booklist, starred review
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The Amalfi Curse
Sarah Penner
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
It fits readers who want atmospheric historical mystery, forbidden love, and ocean-soaked magic.

The Amalfi Curse
Sarah Penner
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
Our take
Sea magic and buried history pull one woman into danger in The Amalfi Curse, where a search for sunken treasure along the Amalfi Coast awakens an older, darker force. As Haven investigates shipwrecks and traces the story of a woman tied to ancient sorcery, the line between history, legend, and present-day disaster begins to collapse. It fits readers who want atmospheric historical mystery, forbidden love, and ocean-soaked magic.
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“This intoxicating story blends old-world magic and modern-day mystery with a delicious dash of amore.” —People
Powerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse…
Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast. But Haven is hoping to find more than old artifacts beneath the azure waters; she is secretly on a quest to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Upon Haven’s arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature or something more sinister at work?
As Haven searches for her father’s sunken treasure, she begins to unearth a centuries-old tale of ancient sorcery and one woman’s quest to save her lover and her village by using the legendary art of stregheria, a magical ability to harness the ocean. Could this magic be behind Positano’s latest calamities? Haven must unravel the Amalfi Curse before the region is destroyed forever…
Against the dazzling backdrop of the Amalfi Coast, this bewitching novel shimmers with mystery, romance and the untamed magic of the sea.
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Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe
Heather Webber
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is the kind of story that wraps grief, family secrets, and small-town charm in a little bit of magic and calls it dinner.

Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe
Heather Webber
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is the kind of story that wraps grief, family secrets, and small-town charm in a little bit of magic and calls it dinner. When Anna Kate returns to Alabama to bury her grandmother and settle the estate, what should have been a quick goodbye turns into something stickier, stranger, and far more heartfelt. With an inherited café, a town full of quirks, and a legendary pie tied to old wounds and hidden truths, this one serves comfort with a side of wonder.
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THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm.
Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café.
It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother’s estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid forming ties or even getting to know her father’s side of the family, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and the mysterious blackbird pie everybody can’t stop talking about.
As the truth about her past slowly becomes clear, Anna Kate will need to decide if this lone blackbird will finally be able to take her broken wings and fly.
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Enlightenment
Sarah Perry
Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction
It’s literary fiction for readers who want big ideas with real feeling.

Enlightenment
Sarah Perry
Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction
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In Enlightenment, a friendship between two kindred spirits stretches across decades, carrying with it questions of faith, love, longing, and the pull of lives half-lived. As Thomas becomes consumed by a mystery tied to a vanished astronomer and Grace leaves their small Essex town behind, their paths drift apart and back toward each other in a novel layered with hidden histories, intellectual tension, and emotional ache. It’s literary fiction for readers who want big ideas with real feeling.
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Telegraph, Washington Post, The New Yorker. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE.
“Like A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic....a heartfelt paean to the consolations of the sublime, where religion and science meet." — Telegraph
"Read it, then read it again. This is a book full of unexpected wonders." — Literary Review
From the author of The Essex Serpent, a dazzling and character-driven novel of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.
Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits—torn between their commitment to religion and their desire to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community.
It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship, and in the wake of this rupture, Thomas develops an obsession with a historical mystery surrounding a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and Grace flees Aldleigh entirely for London. Over the course of twenty years, by coincidence and design, Thomas and Grace will find their lives brought back into orbit as the mystery of the vanished astronomer unfolds into a devastating literary fiction tale of love and scientific pursuit. Thomas and Grace will ask themselves what it means to love and be loved, what is fixed and what is mutable, how much of our fate is predestined and written in the stars, and whether they can find their way back to each other.
A thrillingly ambitious philosophical novel of friendship, faith, and unrequited love, rich in symmetry and symbolism, Enlightenment is a shimmering wonder of a book and Sarah Perry’s finest work to date.
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Things That Break Us
Lisa Felkins
Literary Fiction · Romance
Things That Break Us fits women’s fiction readers who want emotional healing, long-buried pain, life-changing connection, and a sweeping story about choosing the life that actually belongs to…

Things That Break Us
Lisa Felkins
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
Our take
While outwardly chasing the future her father wanted, Tessa is quietly coming apart under the weight of trauma, expectation, and a life that no longer feels like her own. Things That Break Us fits women’s fiction readers who want emotional healing, long-buried pain, life-changing connection, and a sweeping story about choosing the life that actually belongs to you.
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SOME TRUTHS ONLY REVEAL THEMSELVES WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE FALLS APART.
Tessa Williams is doing everything right—at least on the surface. At twenty-five, she’s an American medical student, fulfilling her father’s dreams, completing a clinical rotation in Botswana, Africa. But beneath her polished exterior, she’s unraveling—haunted by an abusive relationship, burdened by expectations, and increasingly unsure of what she wants for herself.
A weekend escape to a remote safari lodge—and an unexpected connection with Corey Diallo, her South African guide with grief of his own—changes everything. What begins as a chance encounter becomes something deeper, forcing them both to confront the pain they’ve buried…and the lives they’ve been told to want.
Spanning twelve years and two continents, Things That Break Us is a sweeping, emotional women's fiction debut about the invisible wounds we all carry, the expectations that shape us, and the moments that define who we become.
It’s a novel that asks: How do we let go of others’ expectations to build the life we truly want? Not the one others planned for us. Not the one that looks good. But the one uniquely, wildly, and solely ours.
Because, sometimes…it takes being far from home to finally come home to yourself.
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Still Life
Sarah Winman
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction
A chance meeting in war-torn Tuscany shapes the rest of one man’s life in this sweeping historical novel about love, art, friendship, and the families we build along…

Still Life
Sarah Winman
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · World War 2
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A chance meeting in war-torn Tuscany shapes the rest of one man’s life in this sweeping historical novel about love, art, friendship, and the families we build along the way. Still Life follows Ulysses from 1944 Italy to postwar London and back again, tracing decades of connection, loss, and unexpected beauty. This is the kind of novel that feels warm, tender, and deeply human without ever losing sight of life’s messier edges.
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A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
A Veranda Magazine Book Club Pick
A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and set off on a course of events that will shape Ulysses's life for the next four decades.
As Ulysses returns home to London, reimmersing himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parot—a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics—he carries his time in Italy with him. And when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate, and returns to the Tuscan hills.
With beautiful prose, extraordinary tenderness, and bursts of humor and light, Still Life is a sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a deeply drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
War Fiction · Literary Fiction
It’s a powerful pick for readers who want emotionally devastating historical fiction with unforgettable human stakes.

A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
War Fiction · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Set against decades of upheaval in Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns follows two women whose lives collide through loss, survival, and the brutal realities surrounding them. Mariam and Laila begin as strangers, but what grows between them becomes a story of endurance, sacrifice, and love that refuses to disappear. It’s a powerful pick for readers who want emotionally devastating historical fiction with unforgettable human stakes.
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Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
“Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek
New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.
A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.
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