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  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jennifer Weiner |William Morrow

    In this affectionate if sometimes off-key novel, a would-be rock star confronts the family drama behind her mother's brief, blazing career. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE GRIFFIN SISTERS' GREATEST HITS, by Jennifer WeinerTwenty years ago, the music industry was still fairly flush. There were big budgets for videos, wardrobe and the wooing of press and radio programmers.

  • Jan 12, 2025 | nytimes.com | Nnedi Okorafor |William Morrow

    DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, by Nnedi OkoraforIn 2019, after Nnedi Okorafor had grown tired of being called an "afrofuturist," she coined a new descriptor for herself on her blog: "africanfuturist." Both terms concern the Black diaspora, Okorafor wrote, but africanfuturism is specifically rooted in Africa. "I needed to regain control of how I was being defined," she asserted.

  • Oct 15, 2024 | nytimes.com | Neal Stephenson |William Morrow

    Therein lies the novel's only major problem. It is a fine study of Dawn/Aurora as she comes of age, with plenty of intrigue and beautifully rendered scenes, but it ends up feeling mostly like an extended setup for a bigger spy saga yet to come. Dawn/Aurora's initial tutor in duplicity is her father, the Ukrainian-born Maxim.

  • Aug 23, 2024 | caledonenterprise.com | William Morrow

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  • Jun 25, 2024 | nyjournalofbooks.com | William Morrow

    It’s hard to publish a sequel to a powerful or popular novel, and even more so in a case like this, where author Joyce Maynard has said that she never intended to return to the complicated family she wrote about three years ago in Count the Ways. How, and how much, should the author summarize the characters and plot of the first book? Could all the key information just be crammed into a prologue that readers could skip? Should the new novel stand on its own?

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