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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson
★★★★· Published 1938· 234 pages
A prim, down-on-her-luck governess stumbles into one glamorous, madcap day. Pure delight — I finished it grinning.
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★ 5The Amateur Marriage
Anne Tyler
A story about a marriage that shouldn’t have happened. A gorgeous recreation of Baltimore from 1940s to present-day. I recommended it to Aliza, and she left me multiple voice notes about how much she loved it.
Amy and Isabelle
Elizabeth Strout
Strout's first novel, about a mother and teenage daughter in a Maine mill town and the affair that cracks them open. You can already see how good she is.
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri's story collection about Indian and Indian American lives, longing and distance. Each one is quietly perfect.