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Dec 4, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Kaveh Akbar |Percival L. Everett |Jo Hamya |Eliana Hernández-Pachón |Adam Higginbotham |Rachel Kushner | +5 more
The books that made us think the most this year
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
time.com | Shannon Carlin |Jo Hamya
These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Shannon CarlinNovember 13, 2024 8:16 AM ESTThe plot of The Hypocrite sounds like the setup to a joke: a middle-aged novelist walks into a play about an out-of-touch writer only to discover the show is about him. The kicker?
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | Jo Hamya
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jo Hamya
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Jo Hamya
Longtime readers of Rumaan Alam will recognise the formula deployed in his fourth novel, Entitlement. As in 2018’s That Kind of Mother and 2020’s Leave the World Behind, narrative thrust depends on interactions between white and Black characters: in this case, the 33-year-old Brooke Orr (Black), a disillusioned former teacher, and her new employer, a billionaire named Asher Jaffee (white), who in his winter years has decided to give away his fortune via an eponymous foundation.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Jackie Thomas-Kennedy |Jo Hamya
BooksFICTION: Jo Hamya’s novel unspools at an expert pace, exploring questions of performance and narrative. Jo Hamya (Sophie Davidson/Pantheon)Jo Hamya’s “The Hypocrite” toggles primarily between the perspectives of Sophia, a 28-year-old playwright in London, and her father, a famous writer who is referred to, pointedly, only as “Sophia’s father.”While her father attends a matinee of Sophia’s play, she sits above him at a rooftop restaurant, enduring a tense lunch with her mother.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Jo Hamya
THE HYPOCRITE, by Jo HamyaEven bad, absent daddies can set aside ego to appreciate the trappings of a classic. In "The Hypocrite," Jo Hamya's sharp and agile new novel, an unnamed, aging writer admits the brilliance of a nearly 10-minute sex scene to open his daughter's latest play. It's a shame the actor thrusting onstage is a venereal, self-regarding avatar of the writer himself, otherwise he'd tell his daughter how clever she was. We are in London, in the summer of 2020.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Jo Hamya
Skip to content Introduction by David Nicholls Share article Issue No 639 Written by Jo Hamya Recommended by David Nicholls In a Covent Garden theatre, a famous and successful novelist watches his daughter’s play and realizes with horror that he is the subject. In the restaurant upstairs, the playwright and her mother unearth the past and argue. In the interval, a young Black woman takes both father and daughter to task for their complacency. Curtain down, father and daughter struggle to...
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
ft.com | Jo Hamya
Having lost God, the narrator of RO Kwon’s Exhibit turns to photography. “O Lord,” Jin Han tells Him, “each photo is for You. I spill light.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Catherine Newman |Claire Lombardo |Jo Hamya |Ann Napolitano
Do you need complete relaxation? An azure pool, cocktails on hand and a light sea breeze? Or are you an adrenalin junkie? Looking to spend your break climbing mountains and learning how to water-ski. Whatever your poison, for a reader one of the great delights in a vacation is choosing which books will be your companions in your suitcase as you travel to a new destination. But how do you choose? With so many brilliant books out it can be overwhelming.
