THE JOYS & HEARTBREAK OF YOUTH – FICTION

MARIE-HELENE BERTINO’s Beautyland: A Novel is a story about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe. Beautyland’s gentle, unforgettable alien possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. As she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Narrated by an ensemble cast of independent outsiders who have chosen counterculture lives, STEPHEN HUNDLEY’s Bomb Island journeys through the weirds and wilds of coastal Georgia. Part coming-of-age summer romance, part thriller, the tale takes a look at the strength of living freely and without shame. In CLAIRE OSHETSKY’s Poor Deer: A Novel, Margaret Murphy weaves fantastic tales in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure, and where her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. Poor Deer explores the journey to understand the children we once were and the stories we tell ourselves to deal with our most difficult moments.

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