You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories

Indeed, she writes what we’re all thinking—if only we could express it with the wit of a master satirist, the storytelling gifts of an old-fashioned raconteur, and the vision of an American original. Booklist starred review praise for you think it, I'll Say It“Curtis Sittenfeld makes writing lively and diverting fiction look easy, though each deceptively simple and breezy story is masterfully paced and crafted.

Whatever sittenfeld writes, we’ll read it. People “razor-sharp, often hilarious. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll find them going through these pivotal moments in their lives. Reese witherspoon reese’s book club x hello sunshine Book Pick A suburban mother of two fantasizes about the downfall of an old friend whose wholesome lifestyle empire may or may not be built on a lie.

. Sittenfeld proves adept at quickly establishing characters in whom the reader feels inclined to invest immediately. Chicago tribune “perfectly paced, witty and laced with unexpected twists: Every story here sticks its landing. Throughout the ten stories in you think it,  sittenfeld upends assumptions about class, I’ll Say It, relationships, and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided.

. Witty and buoyant, Sittenfeld delivers her characters to her audience with bemused perspicacity and above all affection.

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Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After

Profoundly moving and subtly written, romantic love; gratitude for a beautiful, inscrutable world; deep, Happiness radiates in many directions--new, abiding friendship; the passion a parent has for a child; and the many unlikely ways to build a family. Brian reappears as gracie's condition grows dire; together Heather and Brian have to decide what they are willing to risk to ensure their girl sees adulthood.

The grace and humor that ripple through Harpham's writing transform the dross of heartbreak and parental fears into a clear-eyed, warm-hearted view of the world. Ultimately it's a story about love and happiness, in their many crooked configurations. Mere hours after gracie's arrival, "Get dressed, Heather's bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her, your baby is in trouble.

This is not how heather had imagined new motherhood – alone, heartsick, an unexpectedly solo caretaker of a baby who smelled "like sliced apples and salted pretzels" but might be perilously ill. Their magical interlude ends, when Heather becomes pregnant―Brian is sure he loves her, full stop, only he doesn't want kids.

. Henry holt. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone, buoyed by family and friends. Reese’s book club x hello sunshine’s april 2018 book pickA shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.

Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, kind and slyly funny, an intellectual, and Brian, a world-roaming California girl, homebody writer, but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio.


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Something in the Water: A Novel

Catherine Steadman brings. Thrilling and thought-provoking, it’s the perfect beach read. The threats and increasingly bad decisions accelerate with Bourne-like velocity. 1 new york times bestseller • a shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut—for readers of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena.

A psychological thriller that captivated me from page one. Wit, timing and intelligence to this novel. Steadman is a newcomer worth watching. Publishers weekly “an unbearably tense debut with a knockout premise, Something in the Water had me hooked from the very first sentence. Have you ever wondered how long it takes to dig a grave?   Wonder no longer.

. I devoured it!”—riley sager, New York Times bestselling author of Final Girls Henry holt. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water.


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Next Year in Havana

Arriving in havana, marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. Elisa's last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth. The july pick for reese witherspoon's hello sunshine book club"a beautiful novel that's full of forbidden passions, family secrets and a lot of courage and sacrifice.

Reese witherspoonafter the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution. Havana, 1958. Henry holt. Freelance writer marisol ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution.

. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary. Miami, 2017. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.




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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Stretching from her childhood to the present day, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, including relationships with family and friends, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore. As she shares stories of the people, places, wife, ideals, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed, Ann Patchett brings into focus the large experiences and small moments that have shaped her as a daughter, and writer.

Harper Perennial. Reese witherspoon book club pick blending literature and memoir,  and bel canto, run,  examines her deepest commitments—to writing, author of State of  Wonder, friends, dogs, Ann Patchett, books, family, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.

This is the story of a happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett’s life. Henry holt.


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Still Lives: A Novel

Except kim lord never shows up to her own gala. Harper Perennial. Suspicion falls on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson, who happens to be Maggie’s ex. There’s a twist at the end that still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good. Reese witherspoon a reese’s book club x hello sunshine selection a reese's book club x hello sunshine selection a book of the month selection 1 of 22 new books to read This Summer TIME 1 of 20 New Books to Read in June Entertainment Weekly 1 of 30 Exciting New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List Buzzfeed Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.

A. I also loved that it tackled the sticky subject of how women are portrayed in art, culture, and the media―and the consequences of those portrayals. This is a thrilling book, and a much-needed one. Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. A rogue’s gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord’s disappearance, she’ll come to suspect all of those closest to her.

Set against a culture that often fetishizes violence, Still Lives is a page-turning exodus into the art world’s hall of mirrors, and one woman’s journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets. Read it and you’ll see what I mean.


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Florida

The universally acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies. Restorative fiction for these urgent times. The new york Times"Outstanding. The boston Globe"Marvelous. The economist"Gorgeously weird and limber. The new yorker"Easily the year's best story collection. Vogue"groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher.

Npr’s fresh airflorida is a "superlative" book boston globe, "brooding, "gorgeously weird and limber" New Yorker, "frequently funny" San Francisco Chronicle,  inventive and often moving" NPR Fresh Air -- as Groff is recognized as "Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California.

Washington post in her thrilling new book, lauren groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. Harper Perennial.

Startling, precise, and affecting,  Florida is a magnificent achievement. With shocking accuracy and effect, hope and despair, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Groff transports the reader, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, rage, as she writes about loneliness, family, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, and the passage of time.

. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret.


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Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

In "the subletter, both foreign conflict junkies, " two women, fight over a claim to a territory that doesn’t belong to either. Exhibiting a satisfying thematic unity unusual for a collection, this masterful work showcases the biting insight that has made Shriver one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.

. Henry holt. Harper Perennial. In "vermin, " an artistic Brooklyn couple’s purchase of a ramshackle house destroys their once-passionate relationship. In "domestic terrorism, " a thirty-something son refuses to leave home, resulting in a standoff that renders him a millennial cause célèbre. A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Intermingling settings in america and Britain, Lionel Shriver’s first collection explores property in both senses of the word: real estate and stuff. In lionel shriver’s world, we may possess people and objects and places, but in turn they possess us. In the stunning novella "the standing chandelier, " a woman with a history of attracting other women’s antagonism creates a deeply personal wedding present for her best friend and his fiancée—only to discover that the jealous fiancée wants to cut her out of their lives.

In "the chapstick, " a middle-aged man subjugated by service to his elderly father discovers that the last place you should finally assert yourself is airport security. These pieces illustrate how our possessions act as proxies for ourselves, and how tussles over ownership articulate the power dynamics of our relationships.




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Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice The Austen Project

She can spot hypocrisy, cant, self-contradiction and absurdity ten miles away. At a fourth of july barbecue, chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chip’s friend neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming. Youngest sisters kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs.

. Sittenfeld makes an already irresistible story even more beguiling and charming. Elle“a playful, wickedly smart retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Buzzfeed “sittenfeld is an obvious choice to re-create Jane Austen’s comedy of manners. Sittenfeld modernizes the classic in such a stylish, witty way you’d guess even Jane Austen would be pleased.

People book of the week “A sparkling, fresh contemporary retelling. Entertainment Weekly“Sittenfeld is the ideal modern-day reinterpreter. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help—and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray.

Darcy—is one that you have and haven’t met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City.


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The Female Persuasion: A Novel

Faith frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Greer kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. And then, astonishingly, faith invites greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she'd always imagined.

Upon hearing faith speak for the first time, Greer- madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place- feels her inner world light up. Random house. Henry holt. To be admired by someone we admire - we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem.

But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world. Charming and wise, knowing and witty, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition. It's a story about the people who guide and the people who follow and how those roles evolve over time, and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light.

New york times bestseller "ultra-readable. Vogue  "equal parts cotton candy and red meat, in the best way.


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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Novel

Henry holt. Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. Reese witherspoon’s book club pick a lively, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, sexy, and women’s lives at all ages—a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls.

Every woman has a secret life. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected—and exciting—kind. As more women are drawn to the class, nikki warns her students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a group of highly conservative young men who have appointed themselves the community’s "moral police.

But when the widows’ gossip offers shocking insights into the death of a young wife—a modern woman like Nikki—and some of the class erotica is shared among friends, it sparks a scandal that threatens them all. Harper Perennial. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories.

The daughter of indian immigrants, she’s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent that is, Western life. When her father’s death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London’s close-knit Punjabi community.




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