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Brighton Rock
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If you’ve ever loved a bad boy, then Pinkie- the uber naughty career criminal who would and should be played by Barry Keoghan in any modern film adaptation- will make you wince. The novel has a crime caper’s pace, but the truly sinister thread is about Pinkie’s marriage to the pious and devoted Rose, who really needs to head to SLAA or watch a TikTok on the topic of “if he wanted to, he would.” If you like your marital discontent with a helping of Guy Ritchie-esque crime, then this is the one for you.
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Madame Bovary
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Miss Bovary is the OG desperate housewife, and it’s wild how modern this nearly 200 year old meditation on the drudgery of feminine expectation is. Even if you don’t like oldies, this one still feels fresh as hell. Lydia Davis- a genius in her own right, just bought her meditation on COWS- does a gorgeous translation that allows Flaubert’s singular style to really sing and cuts to the heart of sentences that, in other translations, can feel flowery and laborious.
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Colored Television
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Danzy Senna skewers a lot here- capitalism, Hollywood, gentrification, men acting like they’re the first people ever to have thoughts or feelings. But the heart of this novel comes from its layered depiction of a marriage between two artists, and the unsung dreams and stagnated desires that both drive and divide them. This book is hilariously funny, totally modern and possessed of a tone that can’t be described with a simple mash-up of other titles– one of my favorite books I read in 2024.
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While I Was Gone
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Somewhere along the way, Sue Miller got bracketed in with mom novelists. To me, that category also includes Anne Tyler, Ann Patchett and and some other Ann(e)s, and it’s not derogatory- it just means your linen wearing, cabernet swilling, Duolingo class takin’ mom will cry all over the book on vacation. And I want her recs!!! When I got this book from a hotel lending library when I was fifteen- it’s about a married woman being brought back together with a mysterious man from her Bohemian past, who may or may not have played a hand in her best friend’s death- I found it sophisticated and horny and kind of cutting edge, and it made me see my parents as people with big lives that had come before me. If you loved The Secret History but you also like fare that’s a little more straight forwardly dramatic and a little less opaque, grab it.
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When She Was Good
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If you love Philip Roth, or even if you loathe him, this book is for you. For the die-hards, we have it all: bad choices, suburban malaise, toxic introspection. And for the people who are like “I CANNOT HEAR ONE MORE MAN COMPLAIN” then you’re in luck, because this is his only book with a female protagonist, and she is fighting her way through the video game that is heterosexual existence, trying to beat every level. If you wonder why the character seems so dense with the author’s disdain, many believe Lucy Nelson- our protagonist- was heavily inspired by Roth’s doomed first marriage to a shiksa. Trivia fact: this book’s tagline (“a stunning portrait of the all-American bitch”) inspired one of the most personal episodes of Girls.
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