CASTE-ING OFF EXPECTATIONS – FICTION
In Renée Ahdieh’s Park Avenue: A Novel, Jia, the ambitious daughter of Korean bodega owners, is living her dream as a Manhattan lawyer. But when she’s tasked with managing the famous billionaire Park family, she’s drawn into a whirlwind of scandal and secrets. As she chases truth and success, she must decide what she really wants – and needs. Emily Everett’s All That Life Can Afford: A Novel follows Anna, a young American who longs for the fairy-tale London she envisioned – far and away from the moldy flat she finds herself in – until she’s swept into the dazzling world of the Wilder family. As she navigates class, lies, and love, she has to ask herself: What will it cost to play the part without losing where she came from? In Kitty Zeldis’ One of Them: A Novel, Anne Bishop is a Vassar sophomore and part of a popular group of privileged WASPs. Except none of them knows she’s Jewish and her true name is Miriam. She ignores the casual antisemitism among her friends and classmates, until she becomes fascinated by a girl who’s definitely not a part of her crowd: Delia Goldhush, sophisticated, stylish, brilliant, and unashamedly Jewish. Moderated by Zibby Owens, founder of Zibby Media.
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