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2020 SUMMER READING PREVIEW

*Note: All release dates were accurate as of press time; however, the current coronavirus outbreak may cause publishers to reschedule release dates as needed.

NOVELS

All Adults Here

By Emma Straub

May 4

Bestselling author Emma Straub (The Vacationers, Modern Lovers)’s latest book, a novel about the impact our mistakes and decisions may have on our children and their children, netted praise from both Elizabeth Strout and Ann Patchett.

My Mother’s House

By Francesca Momplaisir

May 12

The literary thriller of the summer may very well be this debut from Francesca Momplaisir, in which a house – yes, a – enacts vengeance upon one of its occupants, the patriarch of a family of Haitian-American

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