Tracy Flick-the high-strung, uber-ambitious, obnoxiously self-confident high school student who urged her classmates to “Pick Flick” for student body president-is now a middle-aged and under-appreciated New Jersey assistant principal with her eye on the top job, worried that the school district Superintendent is plotting against her. –ETĪfter a 23-year hiatus, Tom Perrotta’s most iconic character (with apologies to Kevin Garvey) is back. I’ve long been a fan of Crosley’s wry, irreverent personal essays and cultural commentary, so I’m very much looking forward to reading her latest novel, which is billed as a “surrealist meditation on love in an age when the past is ever at your fingertips and sanity is for sale.” Yep, very good, sign me up. What family secrets lay in her bloodline? What great love? National Book Award finalist Kali Fajardo-Anstine has given us another stunning cast of characters to root for. Woman of Light is an entrancing book about the stories we carry, the ones we need to keep telling. Our heroine is alone in the world-until she starts having visions of her ancestors. At its heart is Luz, a tea leaf reader, whose brother is attacked by a violent white mob. From the author of the celebrated story collection Sabrina & Corina comes a new tale of an Indigenous Chicano family, told across generations.
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