In very good company, indeed.
Robin
Love for Rishi Reddi is something my mom and I share (since Rishi Reddi grew up in Kansas, where my parents currently live and currently lives in Cambridge (where I live)). Passage West is a beautiful, rich narrative of the immigrant experience and follows a family of Indian sharecroppers at the start of WWII. It examines the various experiences of immigrants who settled in California, and the rising tensions of living in the west as anti-immigrant sentiment grew among white Americans.
Janaea
Dark humor, tenacious characters, and a bleak backdrop combine to make a horror-movie-like world that you can't look away from because it is both beautiful and twisted. If you like speculative fiction that makes you go "What the heck did I just read?", Melville, and Midsommar, you will love this novel.
Rachel
1) It's better to have only one New Year's resolution.
2)There are worse resolutions than trying to learn a new language.
John
A beautifully wrenching story: when my hands were not frantically turning pages they were likely to be covering my mouth or my heart. It asks, where has mankind’s humanity gone? And yet it answers that it lives right beside the darkness, in pockets as small as a package of peanuts and as vast as a mother’s fortitude. Debut author Keisha Bush wrote this novel after years spent in Dakar, Senegal, but she grew up right here in Boston.
Leila
Marcus is the star of the world's hottest fantasy TV show--but in private, he's Book!AeneasWouldNever, an anonymous fanfiction writer grappling with the show's shortcomings in his stories. When Marcus wades into an online spat to defend a cosplayer getting flack for her weight, he doesn't realize he's flirting with none other than his fandom bestie, Unapologetic Lavinia Stan (aka April Whittier, a gorgeous, no-nonsense geologist). It only takes one feel-good publicity date to spark some serious IRL chemistry, but what will happen when the secrets come out? Adorable and super fun!
Rebecca
Women collectively organizing against evil capitalists using witchcraft? This is the past liberals want.
Meaghan
This book is hilarious! Amber Ruffin is awesome as always and her sister seems pretty great too.
Heather
Sit back, make a cup of tea, and enjoy the latest novel from best-selling author, and PSB friend, Mameve Medwed (How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Save My Life, Of Men and Their Mothers). Filled with her usual sympathetic, yet often eccentric and charming characters, Minus Me is a novel with great heart and soul.
Nathan
This series is utterly bonkers and I am utterly obsessed. Reincarnated gods and identity theft run rampant through this high fantasy that reads like an apocalyptic Kingkiller Chronicles. For bonus points, Jenn Lyons actually crushes deadlines and book four is coming soon!
Caleb
