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Our September pick is THE HYPOCRITE by Jo Hamya. It’s about understanding, forgiveness, and daddy issues. ✨????✨August 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her father’s verdict on her new show. A famous author whose novels haven’t aged as gracefully into the modern era as he might have hoped, he is completely unaware that the play centers around a vacation the two took years earlier to an island off Sicily, where he dictated to her a new book. Sophia’s play has been met with rave reviews, but her father has studiously avoided reading any of them. When the house lights dim however, he understands that his daughter has laid him bare, has used the events of their summer to create an incisive, witty, skewering critique of the attitudes and sexual mores of the men of his generation. Set through one staging of the play, The Hypocrite seamlessly and scorchingly shifts time and perspective, illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that, with impeccable nuance, examines the fraught inheritances each generation is left to contend with and the struggle to nurture empathy in a world changing at lightning-speed.????Support indie bookstores and grab your copy @bookshop_org Enter TeaTimeSept for 15% off when you check out. Code expires Sept 30. Link in bio.

Our August book pick is THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS by Ayşegül Savaş. It’s about finding your place and time in the world.????????????Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family?As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an anthropologist observing local customs. “Forget about daily life,” chides her grandmother on the phone. “We named you for a whole continent and you’re filming a park.”Back in their home countries parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up-all just slightly out of reach. But Asya and Manu’s new world is growing, too, they hope. As they open the horizons of their lives, what and whom will they hold onto, and what will they need to release?Unfolding over a series of apartment viewings, late-night conversations, last rounds of drinks and lazy breakfasts, The Anthropologists is a soulful examination of homebuilding and modern love, written with Ayşegül Savaş’ distinctive elegance, warmth, and humor.????Get your copy of THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS @bookshop_org 

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Our July book pick is PINK SLIME by Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary. It’s a deeply moving novel about what it means to survive ... a mysterious plague. ❤️ ???? ❤️ ???? In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford—a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows—even if staying means being left behind.An evocative elegy for a safe, clean world, PINK SLIME is buoyed by humor and its narrator’s resiliency. This unforgettable novel explores the place where love, responsibility, and self-preservation converge, and the beauty and fragility of our most intimate relationships.Get your copy of PINK SLIME ❤️ out tomorrow ❤️ @bookshop_org... Enter TeaTimeJuly for 15% off when you check out. Code expires July 31. Link in bio.

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Our May book pick is CINEMA LOVE by Jiaming Tang. It’s a sweeping and tender novel about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. ????????????For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City’s Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented the Workers’ Cinema: a theater where gay men cruised for love. While classic war films played, Old Second and his countrymen found intimacy in the screening rooms. In the box office, Bao Mei sold movie tickets to closeted men, guarding their secrets and finding her own happiness with the projectionist. But when Old Second’s passion for his male lover is revealed, a series of haunting events unfold, propelling these characters toward an uncertain future in America.Pre-order your copy of CINEMA LOVE ✨officially out May 7✨ @bookshop_org ... Enter TeaTimeMay for 15% off when you check out. Code expires 5/31. Link in bio.

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Our April book pick is THE HEARING TEST by Eliza Barry Callahan. It’s a novel about a woman who must reorient her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness. ☁️☁️☁️When an artist in her late twenties awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with sudden deafness, but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the specter of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year - a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and loneliness, of the chance occurrences to which she becomes attuned - while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.Through a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters - with neighbors, an ex-lover, doctors, strangers, family members, faraway friends, and with the lives and works of artists, filmmakers, musicians, and philosophers - making meaning becomes a form of consolation and curiosity, a form of survival.Get your copy of THE HEARING TEST @bookshop_org …Enter TeaTimeApril for 15% off when you check out. Link in bio ????☁️☁️☁️Join the conversation.

Introducing Bustle’s March cover star, @dakotajohnson. At the link in bio, the actor sits down with @charlotteowen to discuss the new @teatime.pictures book club, her viral #MadameWeb press tour, and the culture of hating.Photographer: @agatasergeStylist: @kateyoungAssistant Stylist: @carolinedejeanSet Designer: @eyako_oHair: @marktownsend1Makeup: @georgieeisdellManicure: @ashlie_johnsonTalent Bookings: @specialprojectsmediaPhoto Director: @heartattackackEditor in Chief: @charlotteowenSVP Fashion: @tiffanyreidSVP Creative: @karen.hibbert