The Books I'm Reading Now
I'm reading the novel Liars, Sarah Manguso's exploration of art, marriage, and power; I'm reading Catalina, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's novel about a Harvard student raised by undocumented grandparents and her struggles around belonging and securing her future; and I'm listening to the first in Megan E. O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars, in which the heir to a galaxy-wide mining fortune and a revolutionary determined to ruin the family and its business must band together when they discover a plot much bigger than themselves.
What are you reading these days, bookworms?
01 Liars by Sarah Manguso
Jane is an ambitious, aspiring writer who falls in love with John, a filmmaker.
Their inspiration and passion seem to complement each other's hopes and dreams in a web of artistic creativity and room to explore, and they marry.
Jane's beginning to believe she can have it all when on top of it all, she becomes a mother.
But her own career is soon subsumed by the needs and priorities of John's. When she does enjoy success, John is incapable of celebrating her.
Will their conflicting needs and expectations blow apart their marriage? And would that be the worst thing in the world, after all?
I'm reading Liars courtesy of Random House Publishing Group: Hogarth and NetGalley.
Sarah Manguso is also the author of Very Cold People.
02 Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicenzio
Catalina Ituralde is a senior at Harvard. But she's not only a lucky, determined, brilliant girl who cheated death in Latin America, escaped to Queens, and was raised by her grandparents. She's also facing complex issues surrounding belonging, the frightening limbo of the undocumented, and the deep responsibility she feels to her family.
Catalina is a high-energy coming-of-age novel about a spirited young woman trying to save everyone she loves--and preserve her own bright future too.
I'm reading Catalina courtesy of Random House Publishing Group: One World and NetGalley.
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is also the author of The Undocumented Americans.
03 The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe
In the first book of Megan E. O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars, studious Tarquin Mercator is the unlikely heir to his ruthless father's galaxy-wide mining empire. Naira Sharp is a quick-minded spy and revolutionary who thinks she knows why newly discovered planets are being destroyed--and it all comes down to the greed of the Mercator family. Naira is determined to stop them.
Disguised as Tarquin's new bodyguard, Naira is celebrating her access to the Mercator family--until she and Tarquin realize they're stranded on a dead planet. Now they must rely on each other to survive--and together they stumble upon a widespread plot with corruption that spans the galaxy.
I'm listening to The Blighted Stars as an audiobook. Megan E. O'Keefe is also the author of the The Protectorate series and The Scorched Continent series.
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