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Written by Michelle Zauner, who helms the indie band Japanese Breakfast, this memoir is a coming-of-age tale that expands on the author's viral New Yorker essay where she grappled with her Asian American identity in the aftermath of losing her mom to cancer.
Mindy Kaling recently acquired the rights to this debut novel. It tells the tale of teenager Neil Narayan, who has few aspirations other than pursuing his neighbor Anita, who happens to be creating a magical potion from stolen gold that harnesses the ambitions of the jewelry's original owner.
Described as \"Zero Dark Thirty\" meets \"The Social Network,\" this sci-fi thriller from Hugo Award-nominee S.B. Divya takes place 75 years in the future when humans take daily pills to protect them from designer diseases. The only problem? The terrorist group that wants to halt pill production.
This is a novel about a young immigrant mother who comes to New Orleans with her two young sons while her husband remains in Vietnam. Nguyen's literary fiction debut focuses on the family as they try to adapt to America while the father stays behind.
The first book in a new cozy mystery series, the story is about a woman named Lila who is tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant. All is well until a notoriously harsh food critic (who just so happens to be Lila's ex boyfriend) drops dead.
For fans of the show \"Black Mirror,\" this is a twisty young adult novel in the vein of E. Lockhart's critically acclaimed \"We Were Liars.\" The book follows Cee, who has been trapped on an abandoned island for three years. How did she get there, and how will she escape? We're not telling.
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