Itβs giving, season. Our editors have a new selection of books recently published that we think you will adore.
Here are Pages Studioβs most anticipated book releases for December. Click through to read bookshop.orgβs full synopses.
Selected by the Editor.
Itβs March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Goldβanxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessedβhas been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought sheβd marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a half out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn while Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy bloggers and waiting for life to happen.
Then the hives thatβve plagued Poppy since childhood flare up. Julesβs uterus turns against her. Poppy brings home a maladjusted rescue dog named Amy Klobuchar. The girlsβ mother, a newly devout Messianic Jew, starts falling for the same deep-state conspiracy theories as Julesβs online mommies. Jules, halfheartedly struggling to scrape her way to the source of her ennui, slowly and cruelly comes to blame Poppy for her own insufficiencies as a friend, a writer, and a sister. And Amy Klobuchar might have rabies. As the year shambles on and a new decade looms near, a disastrous trip home to Florida forces Jules and Poppyβcomrades, competitors, constant fixtures in each otherβs livesβto ask themselves what they want their futures to look like, and whether theyβll spend them together or apart.
Deadpan, dark, and brutally funny, Worry is a sharp portrait of two sisters enduring a dread-filled American moment from a nervy new voice in contemporary fiction.
Words by Simon & Schuster.
DIDION
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