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Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld’s collection Show Don't Tell brings together twelve sharply observed stories that explore the complexities of modern life with her familiar blend of wit, emotional insight and keen social awareness. The characters, often women at pivotal or reflective moments in their lives, navigate the pressures of ambition, relationships, ageing and the subtle rules that govern how people present themselves. Whether she is writing about an MFA student anxious for a fellowship decision or an artist grappling with the expectations…
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The Greatest Possible Good by Ben Brooks
Ben Brooks brings readers into the chaotic and often very funny world of the Candlewicks, a wealthy family whose comfortable lives implode when the father, Arthur, experiences an unexpected epiphany at the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft. Having spent three days with a bottle of wine, a stash of his son’s drugs and a book on effective altruism, he emerges determined to give away the entire family fortune in the pursuit of doing the greatest possible good. This sudden transformation…
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