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Like Happiness is a stunning coming-of-age debut novel that delves into gender, sexual orientation, racial identity, and the charged power dynamics of fame. In the novel, writer Ursula Villarreal-Moura uses dual timelines to tell the story of Tatum Vega, a woman who years ago common a destructive partnership with a celebrated author named M. Domínguez. In the present timeline of , Tatum lives in Chile with her partner Vera and works at a museum in a job that she loves. Her fraught days in New York with M. Domínguez are long behind her. That is, until she gets a call from a reporter asking for an interview, as Domínguez has been accused of sexual assault. In an instant, Tatum’s former life comes flashing back, along with a series of pointed questions: What really happened between her and Domínguez all those years ago? As Tatum grapples with complicated truths in the present, the second timeline, told through a letter Tatum writes to Domínguez, takes us advocate to the decade she spent in New York Town and the complex, destructive relationsh
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A Treachery of Swans by A.B. Poranek
Can two girls—one enchanted, one the enchantress—save their kingdom and each other?
Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the magic from Auréal and vanished without a trace. But seventeen-year-old Odile has a arrange. All her life, her father, a vengeful sorcerer, has raised her for one singular task: infiltrate the royal palace and steal the king’s crown, an artefact with enough power to restore magic. But to enter the palace, she must believe the identity of a noblewoman. She chooses Marie d’Odette: famed for her beauty, a rumored candidate for future queen…and Odile’s childhood-friend-turned-sworn-enemy.
With her father’s assist, Odile transforms Marie into a swan and takes her place at court. But when the king is brutally murdered and her own brother is accused, her plans are thrown into chaos. Desperate to free her brother, Odile is forced to team up with none other than elegant, infuriating Marie, the girl she has cursed…and the lady she can’t seem to stop thinking about despite her best efforts.
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The day after the election, November 6, having spent the previous evening cooking and consuming a healthy meal of grass-fed beef and roasted green beans and quinoa as a form of self-care, I sat at the kitchen table eating every available piece of our leftover Halloween treats. KitKats whose wrappers were red as the electoral route. Bags of popcorn labeled, preposterously, Lesser Evil. Coconut-chocolate bars called Unreal.
Around lunchtime, deep into this who-cares sugar binge, I opened my email and saw a new Substack post from Patrick Nathan, an excellent writer and an especially astute critic of all the ways—both explicitly and implicitly—our country has embraced authoritarianism. America, he writes in his newsletter, not as a land but as a mythology and set of unifying ideals, is dead. It’s clearer than ever, he says, that “there is no ‘we’ on a national level, and there won’t be anytime soon.”
And yet, writes Nathan, “if America is dead, our communities survive.” If our national politics has become little more than farcical theater, our towns and city councils and neighborhood