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By the Book: Janice Y K (2024)

NYT By the Book column (2024-01-18).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of The Bee Sting
Paul Murray · 2023 · Buy on Amazon
"The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. Read that enormous, brilliantly absorbing tome in two days."
Cover of Prep
Curtis Sittenfeld · Buy on Amazon
"I loved Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld so much because it perfectly encapsulated a certain experience of boarding school. When I read that it had initially been rejected by 14 publishers, it strangely gave me hope."
Cover of The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman · Buy on Amazon
"Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists really captured what I imagine to be young expatriate life in Europe."
Rachel Cusk · Buy on Amazon
"A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk articulated, perhaps in a fiercer way, much of what I had been experiencing: this whole transformation of the self, the shocking, often violent rebirth of one as a mother, rather than a person, an evolution which can never be reversed."
Cover of Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill · Buy on Amazon
"Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation also showed a woman struggling with this transition."
Rumaan Alam · Buy on Amazon
"The wonderful That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam showed that a male writer can fully inhabit the perspective of a mother as well."

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