You Should Read
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You Should Read THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY by Claire Messud
Messud’s novel explores what we can and cannot know about our family members and the ways in which families both shape and challenge our expectations of ourselves, of our futures, of how we want to love and be loved, to know and be known, to remember and be remembered.
You Should Read MEXICAN GOTHIC
But don’t worry: If you can’t recreate the atmosphere of High Place, the deteriorating mansion lording over a Mexican mountain town, you will still enjoy Mexican Gothic.