She is tired of calling places like Bit Lots and Marshalls and asking if they can offer her a job. Over the phone, they can hear her accent and say that the job was recently filled.
Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
“Nora never spoke about the past…She always acted like an emotion expressed was the most dangerous thing in the world.”
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The publishing world is replete with debut novelists who are “dazzling” or “groundbreaking” or “tremendous” and “spectacular.” They can’t all be that good can they? Well in the case of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, believe the hype.
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
"no one learns how to be mean at twenty-five. No one actually becomes a hardline racist in their thirties"
The H Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness by Jill Filipovic
"When it comes to pleasure, our political forces run the gamut from indifference to outright hostility, either ignoring any interest in feeling good or writing off pleasure as immoral, hedonistic, even lazy”
An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal
The American healthcare system is rigged against you. It’s a crapshoot and from day to day, no one knows if it will work well to address a particular ailment.