7 Books We Can't Wait to Read in August
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A doctor with a secret. A wise-beyond-her-years seven-year-old. An Irish ex-pat and the “loud-clapper” she’s dating. Welcome to your August reads, folks!
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1.
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
Phoebe and Will meet their first month at college. Soon, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive religious extremist cult. When the group bombs several buildings, Phoebe disappears and Will devotes himself to finding her. Buy the book
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2.
A Double Life by Flynn Berry
Claire is a hardworking doctor in London who, unbeknownst to everyone, is also the daughter of a notorious murder suspect. When he’s found by police 30 years after the crime, Claire sets out to find the truth. Buy the book
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3.
Maeve in America by Maeve Higgins
Higgins was a best-selling memoirist and comedian in her native Ireland when, at 31, she moved to NYC. Her essays are a funny and smart look at everything from learning to love yourself to dating someone who’s a loud clapper. Buy the book
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4.
Vox by Christina Dalcher
Reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale, Dalcher’s debut is about an America in which women are allowed to speak only 100 words a day—and the woman who will do everything in her power to protect herself and her daughter. Buy the book
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Seven-year-old Chula lives in a gated community in Bogotá at the height of Pablo Escobar’s violence. When her mother hires a live-in maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand the woman. Buy the book
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6.
A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
After getting pregnant by her married boss, a Chinese woman is sent to a secret maternity home in L.A., where she tries to deal with her overbearing housemates and grab her part of the American dream. Buy the book
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7.
The Daisy Children by Sofia Grant
Inspired by true events, this novel is about two distant cousins sorting through their recently deceased grandmother’s belongings and learning about the long-forgotten tragedy of a 1937 school explosion that binds them. Buy the book
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