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This month we’re reading FLASHLIGHT by Susan Choi. It’s about tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory. It will make your head spin in the best way.✨👁️ ✨One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, is Korean, but was born and raised in Japan; he lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her Midwestern family after a reckless adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne’s illegitimate son, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences.But now it is just Anne and Louisa, Louisa and Anne, adrift and facing the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of great loss. United, separated, and also repelled by their mutual grief, they attempt to move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really happened to Louisa’s father?Shifting perspectives across time and character and turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Flashlight chases the shock waves of one family’s catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible currents of history.A monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi, Flashlight spans decades and continents in a spellbinding, heartgripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see.Available on June 3. Support indie bookstores and get your copy on @bookshop_org . Get 15% when you enter TTJune25 at checkout. Link in bio.

Never breaking up this love triangle. Behind the scenes with @Materialists stars Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans. Opens in theaters June 13.

Thank you @elleuk @materialists 🖤

What’s a couple inches? Watch the new trailer for MATERIALISTS, a fresh take on the math of modern love from Academy Award nominated writer-director Celine Song. Starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal. In theaters June 13.

This month we’re reading AUDITION by Katie Kitamura. One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. A mesmerizing Mobius strip of a novel that asks who we are to the people we love. You’ll never be the same after this one. 🧡🎭💙Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day—partner, parent, creator, muse—and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.Get your copy on bookshop.org and support indie bookstores. Get 15% off when you enter TTMay25 at checkout. Code expires 5/31/25. Link in bio.

This month we’re reading THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell. It’s a gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town. You’ll never forget this book. ⚡️🐇 ⚡️The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a “Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate.Russell’s novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been—and what still could be.Get your copy on bookshop.org and support indie bookstores. Get 15% when you enter TTApril25 at checkout. Code expires 4/30/25. Link in bio.

Some people just want more. Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal star in MATERIALISTS, from Academy Award nominee Celine Song. In theaters June 13.Featuring a new original song by Japanese Breakfast.

This month we’re reading LOCA by Alejandro Heredia. It follows one daring year in the lives of young people living at the edge of their own patience and desires.✨⚡️✨It’s 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving science nerd trying to grow beyond his dead-end job in a new city, but he’s held back by tragic memories from his past in Santo Domingo. Free-spirited Charo is surprised to find herself a mother at twenty-five, partnered with a controlling man, working at the same supermarket for years, her world shrunk to the very domesticity she thought she’d escaped in her old country. When Sal finds love at a gay club one night, both his and Charo’s worlds unexpectedly open up to a vibrant social circle that pushes them to reckon with what they owe to their own selves, pasts, futures, and, always, each other.With expansive grace, it reveals both the grueling conditions that force people to migrate and the possibility of friendship as home when family, nations, and identity groups fall short.Get your copy on bookshop.org and support indie bookstores. Get 15% when you enter TTMarch25 at checkout. Code expires 3/31/25.

This month we’re reading The Lamb by Lucy Rose. It’s a queer folktale about a mother and daughter living in the woods, for fans of cannibalism and mommy issues. 🥀🥩🥀Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. People who have strayed too far from the road. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies.But Mama’s want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a beautiful, white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires, and make her bid for freedom.With this gothic coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts—and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.Get your copy on @bookshop_org and support indie bookstores. Get 15% when you enter TTFeb25 at checkout. Code expires 2/28/25.

We’re switching things up to kick off the new year and reading one of our favorite ~classics: LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET by Rainer Maria Rilke. It’s so inspiring it may just set you on a journey to the best year yet. ????????At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself. These profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for generations of writers and artists of all kinds.With honesty, elegance, and a deep understanding of the loneliness that often comes with being an artist, Rilke’s letters are an endless source of inspiration and comfort. Lewis Hyde’s introduction explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force. Support indie bookstores and grab your copy at @bookshop_org. Enter TTJan25 for 15% off when you check out. Code expires Jan 31, 2025. Link in bio.

Our December pick is RENTAL HOUSE by Weike Wang. It’s a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations.???????? ????Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru’s strict, Chinese immigrant parents demand perfection (“To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,” says her father), while Nate’s rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife.Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate, and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?Officially out on December 3. Support indie bookstores and grab your copy at @bookshop.org. Enter TeaTimeDec for 15% off when you check out. Code expires Dec 31. Link in bio.