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The Maidenheads (2026)
Benny B Peterson
"Like a perfect bubble bath on a cold rainy night, The Maidenheads is a novel you'll sink into and won't want to leave. It starts out in a melancholy minor key, but the writing glows with warmth and hope - and a molten core of eroticism. The characters are marvelously messy, and you'll fall in love with them for it. Before you know it, you're tearing through the pages, desperate to find out what Jamie does next and whether she ends up with Mari (and whether she should). The Maidenheads is a slice of life that reminds you how big life is, and how full of beautiful possibilities."
Still Life (2024)
Katherine Packert Burke
"Still Life is vibrantly, brilliantly alive-by turns steely and delicate, wintry and warm, tart and bittersweet, elegiac and joyous. Just like the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim (this novel's patron saint, quietly ever-present), Katherine Packert Burke's writing is cerebral and exquisitely precise yet brimming with feeling."
Just Happy to Be Here (2024)
Naomi Kanakia
"Tara is an unforgettable heroine -- sweetly vulnerable, heartbreakingly hopeful, smarter than she thinks, stronger than she knows -- and Kanakia tells her story with a sharp, unsentimental intelligence that's rare and refreshing."
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