For Adrianne Lenker, love is meant to be a familial undertaking: she’s less interested in its early volatility, the thrills and frills, fantastical projections. She stated it clearly on “Anything,” a track from her 2020 album Songs, when she sang, “I don’t wanna be the owner of your fantasy/I just wanna be a part of your family.” For nearly everyone, our first experience of intimacy and love comes from our family units –“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory,” poet Louise Glück wrote...
- 3/25/2024
- by Leah Lu
- Rollingstone.com
Each month, The Hollywood Reporter will offer up the best new (and newly relevant) books that everyone will be talking about — whether it’s a tome that’s ripe for adaptation, a new Hollywood-centric tell-all or the source material for a hot new TV show.
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Small World by Laura Zigman (WME)
The author follows the cohabitation of two sisters forced to reunite after their respective
divorces; they reckon with traumatic childhoods and navigate their anxieties in a
tender, funny novel that proves the smallest stories can have the biggest heart.
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan (Susanna Lee Associates)
Set in 1980s Sri Lanka, the story centers on young protagonist Sashi, whose dream of
becoming a doctor is derailed amid civil war. Her morality is tested as she joins a group of
activists documenting human rights violations.
Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois (The Gernert Company)
This novel about a young,...
Rights Available
Small World by Laura Zigman (WME)
The author follows the cohabitation of two sisters forced to reunite after their respective
divorces; they reckon with traumatic childhoods and navigate their anxieties in a
tender, funny novel that proves the smallest stories can have the biggest heart.
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan (Susanna Lee Associates)
Set in 1980s Sri Lanka, the story centers on young protagonist Sashi, whose dream of
becoming a doctor is derailed amid civil war. Her morality is tested as she joins a group of
activists documenting human rights violations.
Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois (The Gernert Company)
This novel about a young,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Seija Rankin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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