The Centre, by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (Gillian Flynn). The protagonist of this mystery is a young Pakistani Londoner who earns money writing English subtitles for Bollywood films and longs to translate literary classics. When she receives an invitation to the Centre, a secretive language school that produces native-level fluency in ten days, she enrolls, mastering German and Russian before strange dreams and a hushed-up death alert her to something amiss. The novel explores friendship, purpose, and power; it
Nobody needs to be told that introducing yourself and petting a stranger’s dog can brighten your day — but a growing body of research suggests that it could be great for your health as well.
A new field of scientific study is finding that even brief positive experiences between people and man’s best friend can have a lasting impact, lowering stress hormones and increasing what experts sometimes call ‘the love hormone.’
In fact, there’s growing evidence that even just brief
Dykette, by Jenny Fran Davis (Henry Holt). This biting gay millennial comedy of manners takes place at the holiday home of a wealthy lesbian couple, where two younger, less financially secure couples visit them for ten days. As the older couple derive satisfaction from comparing their lives with those of their guests, a connection develops between a member of each of the younger couples, sparking a consequential outburst. While depicting rituals both mundane and vaunted—revisiting “Gossip Girl,” fights
Fahndungen, posthume Theaterstücke und verliebte Geister in drei Debütromanen.
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