Brinkley, Jamel
Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: On temporary leave from his service in Korea for the holiday season, young sailor Pete is devastated by his girlfriend's unfaithfulness and evaluates his relationship with his distant father, a gruff Irish factory worker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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Summary: There are unexpected consequences when thirteen-year-old Gracie sends texts pretending to be her bashful best friend, Sienna, and their friend Emmett starts texting back pretending to be shy A.J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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Summary: A thriller written with inspired descriptions of New York. The setting moves from the swank Upper East side to a Brooklyn tenement and provides a gripping portrait of the city and its inhabitants today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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Summary: "Alice is trying to return to her career in publishing after raising her only child. But the workplace is less than welcoming to a fortysomething mom whose resume is covered with fifteen years of dust. If Alice were younger, she knows, she'd get hired in a New York minute. So if age is just a number, why not become younger? Or at least fake it. With help from her artist friend, Maggie, Alice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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Summary: Moth is sold into servitude by her mother, and when Moth escapes she finds her mother gone, and she must survive on her own in the murky world of the Bowery, until she meets Miss Everett, the proprietress of an Infant School, a brothel that caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for willing and clean companions, desirable young virgins like Moth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012