An absolutely brilliant essay collection covering race, motherhood, career, travel, and more. I don't usually take the time to appreciate individual lines in a book, but the sentences here had me stopping to savor each one.
If your wardrobe needs some inspiration, take a look at this group of modern fashonistas, part of the "dandy" tradition reaching back centuries.
Sarah
Everyone tells Jade that getting ahead means leaving behind the way she grew up, but Jade isn't ready to turn her back on her mother or her neighborhood.
Sarah
13-year-old Ginny, autistic and newly adopted, is determined to reconnect with her birth mother, but she isn't able to make anyone understand why. So she plots her escape and goes off on her own to save the one person who depends on her.
Sarah
A sociologist looks at why so many turn to for-profit colleges that don't deliver -- but it's so much more interesting than that sounds, because it's really an insightful and well-written critique of pretty much all of modern life.
Sarah
Chloe decides she needs to find her sister Ivy -- on the autism spectrum -- a boyfriend before she leaves for college. When Ivy connects with Ethan, Chloe finds herself spending a lot of time with his brother David, who she can't stand. But there are surprises ahead for all of them.
Sarah
After a round of overspending on the parental credit card, Margot has to spend the summer working in her dad's Bronx supermarket, a different world from the fancy private school where she always feels like an outsider.
Sarah
Behind the scenes of one of the defining movies of the twentieth century, from the real refugees playing refugees on-screen to how the Brattle Theatre helped make it a classic.
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Cadence dreams of becoming a gospel star, but her voice goes silent whenever she tries to sing solo. With her 11th birthday almost here, it's time to figure out who she is -- as a singer and as a person.
Sarah
Homicide detective Casey tries to escape her past by moving to Rockton, a mysterious village in the Canadian wilderness where people with something to hide go to start new lives. Plus: a grouchy but attractive police chief, a manipulative best friend with secrets of her own, and a whole world of people who live off the grid in a very cold place.
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