This month we review five novels that we hope offer a mix of rom-com escapism and essential conversation.
Kimba Allen is a boss with a capital B, every inch the queen of the title.
She knows implicitly that the personal is political and brings that to breathless life.
Credit: Blue Box Press; Penguin (3); Sourcebooks
But its still hyper-present, built into fundamental questions of career, ambition, love, and success.
Augustus Everett writes award-winning literary fiction, while January Andrews pens best-selling romance.
She finds beauty and value in all forms of writing, plumbing storytelling as the purest path to understanding.
Blue Box Press
Its something to talk about indeed.
Jackson has crafted a warm hug of a novel.
So many of us, myself included, learn to knit from trusted matriarchs.
Berkley
Sarah Morgenthalers debut novel,The Tourist Attraction.
Graham hates tourists, and strictly avoids entanglements with them as a rule.
But after Zoey accidentally gets drunk in his restaurant, the two find themselves inexorably drawn to each other.
Penguin
Her banter sings, particularly in the hands of a lovable grouch like Graham.
Penguin
Sourcebooks
