The Boss of You

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Republican representatives play BINGO while Dems fight for working class North Carolinians.
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The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. -George Orwell, 1984
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Join the nyrb classics book club
Your recent five-star reads—Disappoint Me, Chouette, Never Let Me Go, Junie, and others—show you’re currently gravitating toward intimate family trauma told with lyrical darkness and emotional precision, and Flashlight’s fractured, multi-generational excavation of a father’s disappearance lands squarely in that sweet spot. The book’s shifting perspectives and historical displacement echo the diasporic ache you loved in A Woman Is No Man and the haunting memory-work of Minor Detail, while its medium-dark, reflective tone matches your streak of grief-laden literary fiction (I See You’ve Called in Dead, Death Valley). What might feel fresher is its sustained focus on Korean–Japanese–American identity and the liminality of statelessness, a cultural specificity you haven’t visited recently, so if you’re open to letting that unfamiliar lens refract familiar themes of loss and belonging, Flashlight should move to the top of your stack.
Cover of The Road to Tender Hearts, a novel by Annie Hartnett
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Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel
Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel
Epserance by Adam Oyebanji
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