LOOK, WE’RE ALL DOING OUR BEST HERE, OK? – FICTION
In Kristen Arnett’s Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: A Novel, Cherry is a down-on-her-luck professional clown who juggles gigs, side jobs, and family drama. Enter Margot the Magnificent, an alluring magician whose mentorship – and attraction – push Cherry to risk it all. Facing some big questions, she’ll have to decide what kind of clown she wants to be underneath her suit. Jade Chang’s What a Time to Be Alive: A Novel follows Lola, a broke, grieving, and unemployed woman who becomes an unexpected internet folk hero. As fame and influence sweep her up, Lola grapples with loss, questions about her missing mother, and the line between scammer and sage – examining belief, the precarity of fame, and the courage to truly be seen. In Kate Fagan’s The Three Lives of Cate Kay: A Novel, a bestselling author hiding behind a pseudonym is forced to confront the past she’s spent decades outrunning. Once a young dreamer whose Hollywood plans were shattered by tragedy, Cate has reinvented herself again and again. Now, a shocking revelation pulls her home – the only place that can make her whole again. And in Kate Folk’s Sky Daddy: A Novel, Linda is doing her best to live a seemingly normal life, with one major exception: She’s sexually attracted to airplanes. On the last Friday of each month, she visits SFO for a flight – not to travel, but for a date with a plane. Sky Daddy hijacks the classic love story, exploring desire, fate, and the longing for acceptance.
Buy Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: A Novel – Arnett
Buy What a Time to Be Alive: A Novel – Chang
Buy The Three Lives of Cate Kay: A Novel – Fagan
