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[He] has a special understanding of the human heart.&amp;rdquo; &lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;T&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;he Atlantic&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A prose stylist of near-miraculous skill. . . Barry reaches deep into the messenger bag of mystery fiction and turns the whole business inside out . . . marvelous.&amp;rdquo; &lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;An unforgettable novel from one of our finest writers.&amp;rdquo;&amp;#160;&amp;mdash;Douglas Stuart, author of &lt;i&gt;Shuggie Bain&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the five-time Booker Prize nominee and 2018-2021 Laureate for Irish Fiction, a virtuosic, profound novel exploring love, memory, grief, and long-buried secrets&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return of his family: his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie and Joe. But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A beautiful, haunting novel in which nothing is quite as it seems, &lt;i&gt;Old God&#039;s Time&lt;\/i&gt; is about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1727},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593296125"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/652719/old-gods-time-by-sebastian-barry/">Old God’s Time</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/244507">Sebastian Barry</a> </h2> <div class="desc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Long listed for the 2023 Booker Prize, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Old God’s Time</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> tells the story of recently retired policeman Tom Kettle who is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, until two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never solved and he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past. 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His poetry includes &lt;i&gt;The Water-Colourist&lt;\/i&gt; (1982), &lt;i&gt;Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever&lt;\/i&gt; (1989) and &lt;i&gt;The Pinkening Boy&lt;\/i&gt; (2005). He is the recipient of the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award, The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, and Costa Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year. 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His first novel, &lt;i&gt;Go Tell It on the Mountain,&lt;\/i&gt; appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections &lt;i&gt;Notes of a Native Son &lt;\/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;The Fire Next Time &lt;\/i&gt;were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/1261\/james-baldwin","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"J","lastInitial":"B","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/1261","primaryFlag":true},"050-1002":{"id":36118,"display":"Kevin Young","roleCode":"V","roleName":"Introduction by","ontour":false,"spotlight":"KEVIN YOUNG is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose. 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And she explores her desire to build a creative life as a queer woman, asking whether such a thing as a meaningful life is possible under capitalism.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ceaselessly curious, uncompromisingly intelligent, and urgently seeking, with &lt;i&gt;Thin Skin&lt;\/i&gt; Shapland builds thrillingly on her genre-defying debut &lt;i&gt;My Autobiography of Carson McCullers &lt;\/i&gt;(&amp;ldquo;Gorgeous, symphonic, tender, and brilliant&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Carmen Machado), firmly establishing herself as one of the sharpest essayists of her generation.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1939},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593469534"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/714751/thin-skin-by-jenn-shapland/">Thin Skin</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2210062">Jenn Shapland</a> </h2> <div class="desc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Jenn Shapland, the barrier between herself and the world is porous; she was even diagnosed with extreme dermatologic sensitivity — thin skin. 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She can&#039;t stop seeing the ways we are enmeshed and&amp;#160;entangled with everyone else on the planet. Despite our attempts to cordon ourselves off from risk, our boundaries are permeable.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Weaving together historical research, interviews, and her everyday life in New Mexico, Shapland probes the lines between self and work, human and animal, need and desire. She traces the legacies of nuclear weapons development on Native land, unable to let go of her search for contamination until it bleeds out into her own family&amp;rsquo;s medical history. She questions the toxic myth of white womanhood and the fear of traveling alone that she&amp;rsquo;s been made to feel since girlhood. And she explores her desire to build a creative life as a queer woman, asking whether such a thing as a meaningful life is possible under capitalism.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ceaselessly curious, uncompromisingly intelligent, and urgently seeking, with &lt;i&gt;Thin Skin&lt;\/i&gt; Shapland builds thrillingly on her genre-defying debut &lt;i&gt;My Autobiography of Carson McCullers &lt;\/i&gt;(&amp;ldquo;Gorgeous, symphonic, tender, and brilliant&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Carmen Machado), firmly establishing herself as one of the sharpest essayists of her generation.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1939},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593469534"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Paperback<div class="buy-price">$19.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Thin Skin to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593469538"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/short-books-read-weekend/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714751/thin-skin-by-jenn-shapland/9780593469538"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593469538 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book6" format-data="Paperback,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Penguin Books" cat-data="Literary Fiction | Crime Fiction | Historical Fiction" isbn="9780525522768" ttl="McGlue" data-isbn="9780525522768" data-ebook="9780525522751" workid="563278" data-format="Paperback" data-format-name="Paperback" authid="304748" author="Ottessa Moshfegh" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>6</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/563278/mcglue-by-ottessa-moshfegh/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=""> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780525522768" alt="McGlue Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add McGlue to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="563278" data-work="{"workId":563278,"isbn":9780525522768,"title":"McGlue","subtitle":"A Novella","author":"Ottessa Moshfegh","imprint":{"code":"ID","name":"Penguin Books","family":"Penguin Books"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2019-01-08","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":16,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback Original"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":304748,"display":"Ottessa Moshfegh","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Ottessa Moshfegh&lt;\/b&gt; is a fiction writer from New England. &lt;i&gt;Eileen&lt;\/i&gt;, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN\/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. &lt;i&gt;My Year of Rest and Relaxation&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Death in Her Hands&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Lapvona&lt;\/i&gt;, her next three novels, were &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection &lt;i&gt;Homesick for Another World&lt;\/i&gt; and a novella, &lt;i&gt;McGlue&lt;\/i&gt;. 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That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;They said I&#039;ve done something wrong? . . . And they&#039;ve just left me down here to starve. They&#039;ll see this inanition and be so damned they&#039;ll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . . : the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I&#039;ll pat their heads and nod. I&#039;ll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.&lt;\/i&gt;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2331},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"052552276X"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/563278/mcglue-by-ottessa-moshfegh/">McGlue</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/304748">Ottessa Moshfegh</a> </h2> <div class="desc"><em>McGlue </em>is Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novella, and it sets up the sort of strangeness — and, at times, repulsiveness — we’ve come to expect in her later works. Set in 1851 Salem, Massachusetts, McGlue is in custody after allegedly and drunkenly killing his best friend. McGlue isn’t convicted of the crime, and his remorseless thoughts drive the engine of this slow-burning narrative. <em>(160 pages)</em></div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/563278/mcglue-by-ottessa-moshfegh/"> <span class=""> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780525522768" alt="McGlue Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add McGlue to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="563278" data-work="{"workId":563278,"isbn":9780525522768,"title":"McGlue","subtitle":"A Novella","author":"Ottessa Moshfegh","imprint":{"code":"ID","name":"Penguin Books","family":"Penguin Books"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2019-01-08","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":16,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback Original"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":304748,"display":"Ottessa Moshfegh","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Ottessa Moshfegh&lt;\/b&gt; is a fiction writer from New England. &lt;i&gt;Eileen&lt;\/i&gt;, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN\/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. &lt;i&gt;My Year of Rest and Relaxation&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Death in Her Hands&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Lapvona&lt;\/i&gt;, her next three novels, were &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection &lt;i&gt;Homesick for Another World&lt;\/i&gt; and a novella, &lt;i&gt;McGlue&lt;\/i&gt;. She lives in Southern California.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/304748\/ottessa-moshfegh","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"O","lastInitial":"M","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Jake Belcher","photoDate":"2019","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/304748","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/563278\/mcglue-by-ottessa-moshfegh\/9780525522768","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000041,"catDesc":"Crime Fiction","catUri":"\/crime-fiction","menuText":"Crime Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000066,"catDesc":"Historical Fiction","catUri":"\/historical-fiction","menuText":"Historical Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000106,"catDesc":"Mystery &amp; Thriller","catUri":"\/mystery-thriller","menuText":"Mystery &amp; Thriller","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;The debut novella from one of contemporary fiction&#039;s most exciting young voices, now in a new edition.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;They said I&#039;ve done something wrong? . . . And they&#039;ve just left me down here to starve. They&#039;ll see this inanition and be so damned they&#039;ll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . . : the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I&#039;ll pat their heads and nod. 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Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; From one of our most compelling and sensual writers comes a searing,&amp;nbsp;immersive&amp;nbsp;novel based partly on a true story, about a devastating Native American revolt and the woman caught in the middle of the conflict&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A Best Book of the Year: &lt;i&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The New Statesman&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A masterwork. . . . &lt;i&gt;The Lost Wife&lt;\/i&gt; evokes a profound&lt;br&gt;sense of time, place, and moral clarity.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Esquire&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the summer of 1855, Sarah Browne abandons her husband and child to make the long and difficult journey from Rhode Island to Minnesota Territory. When she arrives at a small frontier post with no prospect of work or money, she quickly remarries and has two children. Her new husband, Dr. John Brinton, is the resident physician at the Indian Agency. Anticipating unease there, Sarah instead finds acceptance and kinship among the Sioux women at a nearby reservation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Sioux tribes are wary of the white settlers and resent the rampant&lt;br&gt;theft of their land. Promised payments by the federal government are never made, and starvation and disease soon begin to decimate their community. Tragically and inevitably, this leads to the Sioux Uprising of 1862. During the conflict, Sarah and her children are abducted by two Sioux warriors, who protect her, but because she sympathizes with her captors, Sarah becomes an outcast to the white settlers. In the end, she is lost to both worlds.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Intimate and raw, &lt;i&gt;The Lost Wife&lt;\/i&gt; is a brilliantly subversive tale of the seminal and shameful moment in America&amp;rsquo;s conquest of the West.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1133},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0345807308"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/232011/the-lost-wife-by-susanna-moore/">The Lost Wife</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/21133">Susanna Moore</a> </h2> <div class="desc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the summer of 1855, Sarah Brinton makes the long and difficult journey from Rhode Island to the Minnesota Territory. When she arrives without family or friends, she quickly marries and has two children. Anticipating unease at the Indian Agency, where her husband is the new resident physician, Sarah instead finds acceptance and kinship among the Sioux women at the nearby reservation. When the Sioux Uprising of 1862 erupts, Sarah and her children are abducted by the Sioux, who protect her, but because she sympathizes with her captors, Sarah becomes an outcast to the white settlers. In the end, she is lost to both worlds. Intimate and raw, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Lost Wife</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a searing tale of the conquest of the American West. <em>(192 pages)</em></span></div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/232011/the-lost-wife-by-susanna-moore/"> <span class=""> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780345807304" alt="The Lost Wife Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Lost Wife to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="232011" data-work="{"workId":232011,"isbn":9780345807304,"title":"The Lost Wife","subtitle":"A novel","author":"Susanna Moore","imprint":{"code":"V2","name":"Vintage","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-08-20","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":18,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":21133,"display":"Susanna Moore","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"SUSANNA MOORE is the author of several novels, including&lt;i&gt; In the Cut, Sleeping Beauties&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;The Whiteness of Bones&lt;\/i&gt;, and four books of nonfiction&lt;i&gt;.&lt;\/i&gt; She lives in New York City.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/21133\/susanna-moore","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"S","lastInitial":"M","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Denise Applewhite, Princeton University","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/21133","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/232011\/the-lost-wife-by-susanna-moore\/9780345807304","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000170,"catDesc":"Women&#039;s Fiction","catUri":"\/womens-fiction","menuText":"Women&#039;s Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000066,"catDesc":"Historical Fiction","catUri":"\/historical-fiction","menuText":"Historical Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; From one of our most compelling and sensual writers comes a searing,&amp;nbsp;immersive&amp;nbsp;novel based partly on a true story, about a devastating Native American revolt and the woman caught in the middle of the conflict&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A Best Book of the Year: &lt;i&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The New Statesman&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A masterwork. . . . &lt;i&gt;The Lost Wife&lt;\/i&gt; evokes a profound&lt;br&gt;sense of time, place, and moral clarity.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Esquire&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the summer of 1855, Sarah Browne abandons her husband and child to make the long and difficult journey from Rhode Island to Minnesota Territory. When she arrives at a small frontier post with no prospect of work or money, she quickly remarries and has two children. Her new husband, Dr. John Brinton, is the resident physician at the Indian Agency. Anticipating unease there, Sarah instead finds acceptance and kinship among the Sioux women at a nearby reservation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Sioux tribes are wary of the white settlers and resent the rampant&lt;br&gt;theft of their land. Promised payments by the federal government are never made, and starvation and disease soon begin to decimate their community. Tragically and inevitably, this leads to the Sioux Uprising of 1862. During the conflict, Sarah and her children are abducted by two Sioux warriors, who protect her, but because she sympathizes with her captors, Sarah becomes an outcast to the white settlers. In the end, she is lost to both worlds.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Intimate and raw, &lt;i&gt;The Lost Wife&lt;\/i&gt; is a brilliantly subversive tale of the seminal and shameful moment in America&amp;rsquo;s conquest of the West.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1133},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0345807308"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Paperback<div class="buy-price">$18.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add The Lost Wife to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780345807304"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/short-books-read-weekend/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/232011/the-lost-wife-by-susanna-moore/9780345807304"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780345807304 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book8" format-data="Paperback,Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Hogarth" cat-data="Literary Fiction" isbn="9780525573067" ttl="The White Book" data-isbn="9780525573067" data-ebook="9780525573081" workid="566130" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="276047" author="Han Kang" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>8</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/566130/the-white-book-by-han-kang/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=""> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780525573067" alt="The White Book Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The White Book to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="566130" data-work="{"workId":566130,"isbn":9780525573067,"title":"The White Book","subtitle":null,"author":"Han Kang","imprint":{"code":"HG","name":"Hogarth","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2019-02-19","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":22,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":276047,"display":"Han Kang","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Han Kang &lt;\/b&gt;was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of &lt;i&gt;The Vegetarian&lt;\/i&gt;, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as &lt;i&gt;Human Acts&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The White Book&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Greek Lessons, &lt;\/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;We Do Not Part&lt;\/i&gt;.&amp;#160;In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/276047\/han-kang","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"H","lastInitial":"K","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Paik Dahuim","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/276047","primaryFlag":true},"110-1002":{"id":28813,"display":"Deborah Smith","roleCode":"T","roleName":"Translated by","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Deborah Smith&lt;\/b&gt; was a newspaper editor before she became an award-winning and &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;bestselling author of contemporary romances, including the books &lt;i&gt;A Place to Call Home&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Blue Willow&lt;\/i&gt;. She has published more than 30 novels over the course of her career and is now focusing on writing fiction with romantic elements.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/28813\/deborah-smith","attr":1002,"firstInitial":"D","lastInitial":"S","hasAuthorPhoto":false,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/28813","primaryFlag":false}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/566130\/the-white-book-by-han-kang\/9780525573067","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;from the Nobel Prize citation&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE &amp;bull;&amp;#160;A &amp;ldquo;formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply political&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review&lt;\/i&gt;) exploration of personal grief through the prism of the color white, from the internationally bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;The Vegetarian&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Stunningly beautiful. . . one of the smartest reflections on what it means to remember those we&amp;rsquo;ve lost.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;NPR&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kang&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;The White Book&lt;\/i&gt; is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sister&amp;rsquo;s death, who died in her mother&amp;rsquo;s arms just a few hours after she was born.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In captivating, starkly beautiful language, &lt;i&gt;The White Book&lt;\/i&gt; is a letter from Kang to her sister, offering a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, and of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":3474},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0525573062"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/566130/the-white-book-by-han-kang/">The White Book</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/276047">Han Kang</a> </h2> <div class="desc">In this lyrical meditation of grief, Han Kang’s unnamed narrator wanders around the snow-filled city of Warsaw while she muses on all things white, from the innocuous — a silent dog — to the profound and devastating — the rice cake-colored skin of the baby who died in the narrator’s mother’s arms long ago, an event inspired by Kang’s family history. 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She is the author of &lt;i&gt;The Vegetarian&lt;\/i&gt;, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as &lt;i&gt;Human Acts&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The White Book&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Greek Lessons, &lt;\/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;We Do Not Part&lt;\/i&gt;.&amp;#160;In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/276047\/han-kang","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"H","lastInitial":"K","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Paik Dahuim","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/276047","primaryFlag":true},"110-1002":{"id":28813,"display":"Deborah Smith","roleCode":"T","roleName":"Translated by","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Deborah Smith&lt;\/b&gt; was a newspaper editor before she became an award-winning and &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;bestselling author of contemporary romances, including the books &lt;i&gt;A Place to Call Home&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Blue Willow&lt;\/i&gt;. 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Putnam's Sons" cat-data="Historical Fiction" isbn="9780593419359" ttl="Love & Saffron" data-isbn="9780593419359" data-ebook="9780593419342" workid="679108" data-format="Paperback" data-format-name="Paperback" authid="147977" author="Kim Fay" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>9</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/679108/love-and-saffron-by-kim-fay/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=""> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593419359" alt="Love & Saffron Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Love & Saffron to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="679108" data-work="{"workId":679108,"isbn":9780593419359,"title":"Love &amp; Saffron","subtitle":"A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love","author":"Kim Fay","imprint":{"code":"Z5","name":"G.P. 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Into this beautiful, intimate world comes the ultimate test of their friendship, and of their belief that food and love can sustain us during our darkest hours.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":277},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593419359"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/679108/love-and-saffron-by-kim-fay/">Love & Saffron</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/147977">Kim Fay</a> </h2> <div class="desc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter — as well as a gift of saffron — to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. Imogen lives outside Seattle, writing a monthly column for a Pacific Northwest magazine. 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One recipe. A friendship for the ages.&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Creamy risotto alla Milanese. Mussels in a hot, buttery broth. Chicken spiced with cinnamon and cloves. Joan Bergstrom and Imogen Fortier understand the key to a savored life&amp;mdash;delicious food. Young Joan is just discovering herself as a foodwriter in bustling Los Angeles, while experienced columnist Imogen is settled in her decades-long marriage on Camano Island outside Seattle. When Joan sends a fan letter to Imogen with an enclosed packet of saffron and a recipe, their journey of culinary exploration and soul-deep friendship begins. A long-lost flavor surfaces buried memories, and a quest to make carne asada opens the doors of a sheltered life. 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And now Ayoola&amp;rsquo;s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola&amp;rsquo;s knife. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Korede&amp;rsquo;s practicality is the sisters&amp;rsquo; saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her &amp;ldquo;missing&amp;rdquo; boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she&amp;rsquo;s exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola&amp;rsquo;s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she&amp;rsquo;s willing to go to protect her.&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":6451},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0525564209"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/588860/my-sister-the-serial-killer-by-oyinkan-braithwaite/">My Sister, the Serial Killer</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2181532">Oyinkan Braithwaite</a> </h2> <div class="desc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace … not that she gets any credit. Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola’s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she’s willing to go to protect her.<em> (240 pages)</em></span></div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/588860/my-sister-the-serial-killer-by-oyinkan-braithwaite/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780525564201" alt="My Sister, the Serial Killer Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add My Sister, the Serial Killer to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="588860" data-work="{"workId":588860,"isbn":9780525564201,"title":"My Sister, the Serial Killer","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Oyinkan Braithwaite","imprint":{"code":"V2","name":"Vintage","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2019-07-30","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":17,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2181532,"display":"Oyinkan Braithwaite","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE is a graduate of Kingston University in Creative Writing and Law. 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Boyd is an assistant professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2146277\/david-boyd","attr":1002,"firstInitial":"D","lastInitial":"B","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2146277","primaryFlag":false},"110-1003":{"id":2049456,"display":"Lucy North","roleCode":"T","roleName":"Translated by","ontour":false,"spotlight":"Lucy North is the translator of &lt;i&gt;The Woman in the Purple Skirt&lt;\/i&gt; by Natsuko Imamura as well as fiction and nonfiction by over half a dozen other modern and contemporary Japanese writers, including Taeko Kono, Fumiko Enchi, Hiroko Oyamada, and Hiromi Kawakami. Her fiction translations have appeared in &lt;i&gt;Granta&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Words Without Borders&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;The Southern Review&lt;\/i&gt;, as well as in &lt;i&gt;The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Found in Translation: 100 of the Finest Short Stories Ever Translated&lt;\/i&gt;.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2049456\/lucy-north","attr":1003,"firstInitial":"L","lastInitial":"N","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Georgina Piper","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2049456","primaryFlag":false}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/678228\/diary-of-a-void-by-emi-yagi-translated-by-david-boyd-and-lucy-north\/9780143136880","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000170,"catDesc":"Women&#039;s Fiction","catUri":"\/womens-fiction","menuText":"Women&#039;s Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: &lt;i&gt;The New Yorker&lt;\/i&gt; &amp;middot; NPR &amp;middot; WBEZ&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Nerdette &lt;\/i&gt;&amp;middot; The New York Public Library &amp;middot; &lt;i&gt;Literary Hub&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;Editors&amp;rsquo; Choice&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;One of the most passionate cases I&amp;rsquo;ve ever read for female interiority, for women&amp;rsquo;s creative pulse and rich inner life.&amp;rdquo; &amp;#8213;Katy Waldman, &lt;i&gt;The New Yorker&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Always expect the unexpected when you&amp;rsquo;re not expecting.&amp;rdquo; &amp;#8213;Sloane Crosley&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A woman in Tokyo avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she&amp;rsquo;s pregnant in this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about the mother of all deceptions, for fans of &lt;i&gt;Convenience Store Woman &lt;\/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;Breasts and Eggs&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that as the only woman at her new workplace&amp;mdash;a manufacturer of cardboard tubes&amp;mdash;she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can&amp;rsquo;t clear away her coworkers&amp;rsquo; dirty cups&amp;mdash;because she&amp;rsquo;s pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is . . . Ms. Shibata is not pregnant.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Pregnant Ms. Shibata doesn&amp;rsquo;t have to serve coffee to anyone. Pregnant Ms. Shibata isn&amp;rsquo;t forced to work overtime. Pregnant Ms. Shibata rests, watches TV, takes long baths, and even joins an aerobics class for expectant mothers. She&amp;rsquo;s finally being treated by her colleagues as more than a hollow core. But she has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Before long, it becomes all-absorbing, and with the help of towel-stuffed shirts and a diary app that tracks every stage of her &amp;ldquo;pregnancy,&amp;rdquo; the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Surreal and absurdist, and with a winning matter-of-factness, a light touch, and a refreshing sensitivity to mental health, &lt;i&gt;Diary of a Void&lt;\/i&gt; will keep you turning the pages to see just how far Ms. Shibata will carry her deception for the sake of women, and especially working mothers, everywhere.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1361},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0143136887"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/678228/diary-of-a-void-by-emi-yagi-translated-by-david-boyd-and-lucy-north/">Diary of a Void</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2250116">Emi Yagi</a> </h2> <div class="desc">When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that as the only woman at her new workplace — a manufacturer of cardboard tubes — she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can’t clear away her coworkers’ dirty cups — because she’s pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is … Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. Surreal and absurdist, and with a winning matter-of-factness, a light touch, and a refreshing sensitivity to mental health, <i>Diary of a Void</i> will keep you turning the pages to see just how far Ms. Shibata will carry her deception for the sake of women, and especially working mothers, everywhere. <em>(224 pages)</em></div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/678228/diary-of-a-void-by-emi-yagi-translated-by-david-boyd-and-lucy-north/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780143136880" alt="Diary of a Void Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Diary of a Void to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="678228" data-work="{"workId":678228,"isbn":9780143136880,"title":"Diary of a Void","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Emi Yagi; Translated by David Boyd and Lucy North","imprint":{"code":"ID","name":"Penguin Books","family":"Penguin Books"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2023-08-08","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":18,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2250116,"display":"Emi Yagi","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"Emi Yagi&amp;#160;is an editor at a Japanese women&amp;rsquo;s magazine. 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One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2395},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0399184600"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Paperback<div class="buy-price">$17.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Fever Dream to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780399184604"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/short-books-read-weekend/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533971/fever-dream-by-samanta-schweblin-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/9780399184604"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780399184604 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book16" format-data="Paperback" imprint-data="Vintage" cat-data="Literary Fiction | Women's Fiction" isbn="9780375708367" ttl="Monkeys" data-isbn="9780375708367" workid="115261" data-format="Paperback" data-format-name="Paperback" authid="20823" author="Susan Minot" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>16</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/115261/monkeys-by-susan-minot/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780375708367" alt="Monkeys Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Monkeys to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="115261" data-work="{"workId":115261,"isbn":9780375708367,"title":"Monkeys","subtitle":null,"author":"Susan Minot","imprint":{"code":"V2","name":"Vintage","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2000-08-08","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":15.95,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":20823,"display":"Susan Minot","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":true,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Susan Minot&lt;\/b&gt; is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. 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Martin&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Rogues&lt;\/i&gt; anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world&amp;rsquo;s most original and skilled voices in fiction.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1826},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0804188971"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/536348/the-grownup-by-gillian-flynn/">The Grownup</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/70462">Gillian Flynn</a> </h2> <div class="desc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. However, when the “psychic” visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. 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Powerfully rendered, exquisitely crafted in Barnes&amp;rsquo;s erudite style, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus of the heart.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":0},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0345806581"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/228133/levels-of-life-by-julian-barnes/">Levels of Life</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/1450">Julian Barnes</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Julian Barnes wrote <em>Levels of Life</em> after the death of his wife, and the tripartite book consists of three sections: one history, one fiction, and one memoir. 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This book a masterpiece.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Tommy Orange, author of &lt;i&gt;There There &lt;\/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;Wandering Stars&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;On Earth We&amp;rsquo;re Briefly Gorgeous&lt;\/i&gt; is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family&amp;rsquo;s history that began before he was born &amp;mdash; a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam &amp;mdash; and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. 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Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. 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Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, &lt;i&gt;On Earth We&amp;rsquo;re Briefly Gorgeous&lt;\/i&gt; is as much about the power of telling one&amp;rsquo;s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Named a Best Book of the Year by:&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Esquire, The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt;, Apple, &lt;i&gt;Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker&lt;\/i&gt;, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, &lt;i&gt;The Guardian&lt;\/i&gt;, The A.V. 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A graduate of Brown and Columbia, her writing has appeared in&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Zoetrope: All-Story&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;The Paris Review Daily&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Transition&lt;\/i&gt;, and elsewhere. She is a cofounder and former publisher of&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Apogee Journal&amp;#160;&lt;\/i&gt;and a contributing editor to&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Literary Hub&lt;\/i&gt;. She has been in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Dar al-Ma&#039;m&amp;ucirc;n in Marrakech, Morocco. Clemmons lives in Los Angeles with her husband, where she teaches at The Colburn Conservatory and Occidental College.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2142936\/zinzi-clemmons","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"Z","lastInitial":"C","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Nina Subin","photoDate":"2017","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2142936","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/547466\/what-we-lose-by-zinzi-clemmons\/9780735221734","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000170,"catDesc":"Women&#039;s Fiction","catUri":"\/womens-fiction","menuText":"Women&#039;s Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;Named a Best Book of the Year by &lt;i&gt;Vogue&lt;\/i&gt;, NPR,&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Elle&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Esquire&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Buzzfeed&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;San Francisco Chronicle,&amp;#160;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cosmopolitan, T&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;he Huffington Post,&amp;#160;The A.V. Club&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Root&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Harper&amp;rsquo;s Bazaar,&amp;#160;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Paste&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Bustle&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kirkus Reviews,&amp;#160;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Electric Literature, LitHub, New York Post, Los Angeles Review of Books,&amp;#160;&lt;\/i&gt;and&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Bust&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;The debut novel of the year.&amp;rdquo; &lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vogue&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;ldquo;Like so many stories of the black diaspora, &lt;i&gt;What We Lose&lt;\/i&gt; is an examination of haunting.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Doreen St. F&amp;eacute;lix, &lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;The New Yorker&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Raw and ravishing, this novel pulses with vulnerability and shimmering anger.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Nicole Dennis-Benn,&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;O, the Oprah Magazine&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Stunning. . . . Powerfully moving and beautifully wrought, &lt;i&gt;What We Lose&lt;\/i&gt; reflects on family, love, loss, race, womanhood, and the places we feel home.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Buzzfeed&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Remember this name: Zinzi Clemmons. Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like &lt;i&gt;What We Lose&lt;\/i&gt;. . . . The book is a remarkable journey.&amp;rdquo; &lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Essence&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age&amp;mdash;a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother&amp;rsquo;s childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor&amp;mdash;someone, or something, to love. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandi&amp;rsquo;s life unfold, from losing her mother and learning to live without the person who has most profoundly shaped her existence, to her own encounters with romance and unexpected motherhood. Through exquisite and emotional vignettes, Clemmons creates a stunning portrayal of what it means to choose to live, after loss. An elegiac distillation, at once intellectual and visceral, of a young woman&amp;rsquo;s understanding of absence and identity that spans continents and decades,&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;What We Lose&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;#160;heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new voice in fiction.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":210},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0735221731"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/547466/what-we-lose-by-zinzi-clemmons/">What We Lose</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2142936">Zinzi Clemmons</a> </h2> <div class="desc">In spare yet rich prose, Zinzi Clemmons reflects on race, family, and grief through the lens of Thandi, a young mixed-race woman coming of age in America, watching her mother die of cancer, and moving through life without the person she needs most. Thandi’s search for meaning and her reflections on her mother’s childhood in Johannesburg merge into a multigenerational tale of lost and remade identity. <em>(224 pages)</em></div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/547466/what-we-lose-by-zinzi-clemmons/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780735221734" alt="What We Lose Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add What We Lose to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="547466" data-work="{"workId":547466,"isbn":9780735221734,"title":"What We Lose","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Zinzi Clemmons","imprint":{"code":"ID","name":"Penguin Books","family":"Penguin Books"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2018-06-05","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":17,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2142936,"display":"Zinzi Clemmons","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Zinzi Clemmons&lt;\/b&gt; was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. A graduate of Brown and Columbia, her writing has appeared in&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Zoetrope: All-Story&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;The Paris Review Daily&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Transition&lt;\/i&gt;, and elsewhere. She is a cofounder and former publisher of&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Apogee Journal&amp;#160;&lt;\/i&gt;and a contributing editor to&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Literary Hub&lt;\/i&gt;. She has been in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Dar al-Ma&#039;m&amp;ucirc;n in Marrakech, Morocco. Clemmons lives in Los Angeles with her husband, where she teaches at The Colburn Conservatory and Occidental College.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2142936\/zinzi-clemmons","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"Z","lastInitial":"C","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Nina Subin","photoDate":"2017","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2142936","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/547466\/what-we-lose-by-zinzi-clemmons\/9780735221734","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000170,"catDesc":"Women&#039;s Fiction","catUri":"\/womens-fiction","menuText":"Women&#039;s Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;Named a Best Book of the Year by &lt;i&gt;Vogue&lt;\/i&gt;, NPR,&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Elle&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Esquire&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Buzzfeed&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;San Francisco Chronicle,&amp;#160;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cosmopolitan, T&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;he Huffington Post,&amp;#160;The A.V. 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Powerfully moving and beautifully wrought, &lt;i&gt;What We Lose&lt;\/i&gt; reflects on family, love, loss, race, womanhood, and the places we feel home.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Buzzfeed&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Remember this name: Zinzi Clemmons. Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like &lt;i&gt;What We Lose&lt;\/i&gt;. . . . The book is a remarkable journey.&amp;rdquo; &lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Essence&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age&amp;mdash;a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother&amp;rsquo;s childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor&amp;mdash;someone, or something, to love. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandi&amp;rsquo;s life unfold, from losing her mother and learning to live without the person who has most profoundly shaped her existence, to her own encounters with romance and unexpected motherhood. Through exquisite and emotional vignettes, Clemmons creates a stunning portrayal of what it means to choose to live, after loss. 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But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Elegiac and searching, &lt;i&gt;The Friend&lt;\/i&gt; is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":4092},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0735219451"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/558005/the-friend-national-book-award-winner-by-sigrid-nunez/">The Friend (National Book Award Winner)</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/244761">Sigrid Nunez</a> </h2> <div class="desc">When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. 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