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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