A WOMAN’S FIRE NEEDS KINDLING – FICTION
Ada Calhoun’s Crush: A Novel is a sharp, funny, and seductive story of what happens when one-half of a couple urges the other to address the labels of “husband” and “wife” – kicking off a surprising journey of sex, heartbreak, and heart rekindling. In Hannah Pittard’s If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel, a novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently in her ex-husband’s debut novel. For a week, her life continues largely unaffected – then one morning she wakes up changed. It’s an irreverent take on art, desire, domesticity, freedom, and the 21st-century female experience. In Amy Shearn’s Animal Instinct, it’s spring 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein – like the rest of the world – is stuck inside. She’s a mother of three, a recent divorcée, and in possession of a newly awakened sexual desire. With no other way to channel the latter she programs Frankie, an AI chatbot, with all the good parts (and some of the bad) of middle-age dating. But real life has much more in store for her than she could ever program.
Buy If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel – Pittard
Buy Animal Instinct: A Novel – Shearn
