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An NPR, Washington Post, Time, People, Vulture, Guardian, Vox, Kirkus Reviews, Newsweek, LitHub, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * “Delightful…cathartic, devious, and terrifically entertaining.” —The New York Times * “Timely, whip-smart, and darkly funny.” —People (Book of the Week)
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“When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me.” And so we are introduced to our narrator who’s “a work of art in herself” (The Washington Post): a popular English professor whose charismatic husband at the same small liberal arts college is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extra-marital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life has become far less comfortable for them both. And when our narrator becomes increasingly infatuated with Vladimir—a celebrated, married young novelist who’s just arrived on campus—their tinder box world comes dangerously close to exploding.
“Timely, whip-smart, and darkly funny” (People), Vladimir takes us into charged territory, where the boundaries of morality bump up against the impulses of the human heart. This edgy, uncommonly assured debut perfectly captures the personal and political minefield of our current moment, exposing the nuances and the grey area between power and desire.
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One Amazing Thing
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Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.
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Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick.
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For years Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies, leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance - a house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: the deceased's 82-year old mother, Edith.
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Narrator is distracting.
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The Perfect Life Ain't So Perfect
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No need to check your scepticism at the door!
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Lifted by the Great Nothing
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Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely.
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Excellent
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Discover this moving story of five remarkable friends as Mary Alice Monroe, the New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House, explores the power of friendship with tenderness and honesty.
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Beware: Title Is Deceptive !!
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Nearly Normal
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This one is just not for me
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The Rest of Her Life
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Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy, the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community.
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Obnoxious musical interludes ruin the story
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By: Laura Moriarty
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- 02-18-22
Please do not judge this book by its cover
Before I get into what Vladimir is, I feel it is important to qualify what it is not. This is not a light smutty read that indulges an age-gap fetish. This is not a wish-fulfilment romance novel where the older woman wins the young object of her affection.
Vladimir reads more like a confessional one-woman play, since the reader spends most of the book inside the narrator's head. Who is our unnamed narrator? She is a professor, a struggling writer, a patient and loving mother, and wife to a professor who is being accused of inappropriate behavior with seven of his former students. We may not know our narrator's name, but we learn a lot about her. She is self-conscious about her aging body and about whether or not she still appeals to men. She is intelligent, self-effacing, rebellious but also ceding to the status quo, well-read, horny, and both devoted to and critical of her husband, her students, and anyone else in her life who means something to her. We watch our aging narrator, who is 58, navigate evolving ideas about sexual liberation, generational rifts, #MeToo, and a society where the ideas that once made her and her husband ahead of their time are now viewed largely as backwards and problematic. Our narrator tries to walk the fine line between appreciating evolving attitudes about equal rights, gender roles, relationship between professors and students, political correctness, and what it deemed "right" and "wrong", while also maintaining the ideas and values that have guided her through the greater part of her life.
I disagree with so much of what this narrator believes and values. I often found her hypercritical, particularly of women, almost to the point of cattiness. I found her need to be appreciated and desired by men pathetic, but I also found myself enraptured by her raw and confessional musings. This is a novel that would have been boring if told by someone who is a pure, politically correct, and uncomplicated woman, since this is not a book where a lot happens, honestly. What makes Vladimir so compelling is its messy yet empathic narrator.
My complaints about this book are that is a) a little draggy and b) a bit anti-climactic. Vladimir is so relatable because it is so grounded in realism, but it is also this novel's weakness. I was hoping for something a little darker, a little more transgressive, or heck, even a little steamier, but instead the novel is content to favor reality over expectations.
Narrator Rebecca Lowman did a fantastic job with the reading. She gave nuance to the many moods that our narrator was experiencing. Vladimir is a strong debut novel, and I can't wait to read more by Julia May Jonas, who is already a gifted wordsmith.
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- Swallowtail
- 02-12-22
Unnamed Narrator
This novel is about so much more than Vladimir. It is, first and foremost, the unnamed narrator's story. Without revealing the plot, I will tell you that this book is intense, unsettling, complicated, thought-provoking, literate, and insightful; if you are or know and care about a "woman of a certain age," this book is for you. I found the narrator's thoughts/feelings about being a woman who has come of age in modern-day America stunningly identifiable. I understand that Vladimir is being called a #MeToo novel, but I assure you that it is much, much more.
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- 02-06-22
Hurry up and publish another, Ms. Jonas!
Don't let the unfortunate cover trick you into thinking this is some smarmy romance novel or a Fifty Shades of Grey knockoff. If you like character-driven stories and sharp-edged social commentary, put this in your queue.
I'm not going to reveal a thing about the storyline, except to say that it was refreshingly unpredictable, but not in that contorted way some novelists resort to when they write themselves into corners.
Spot-on narration by Rebecca Lowman.
I'll be looking for more from this author. And this narrator.
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- C. van Leeuwen
- 02-15-22
Feminine Banality
An older woman condemns younger women for their lack of agency, but spends most of her time criticizing her own appearance and measuring it against those same women. When something interesting finally occurs the author glosses over it in the last third of the book and the ending is an after thought. This is a must read if you like tedium and gratuitous virtue signaling.
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- Sarah Isaacson
- 01-06-23
Don’t judge a book by its cover
I did. I passed on this three times! I thought it was a romance. It is so much more.
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- luckylucky
- 07-14-22
Remarkable
This book changed me. Wit, intelligence. Excellent characters, who surprise even themselves. This piece is remarkable!
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- Virginia M.
- 02-24-24
Metaphor extravaganza
The characters were not likeable people. While this would not diminish the story telling, there seemed to be a false premise overall. Several elements, like drugging and chaining Vlad bordered on the ridiculous. I felt like I was reading patches of other stories, like Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Me Too literature. The 30+ year old woman in the last chapter tried to summarize some point that failed to be communicated in the previous chapters. Not great and metaphors everywhere.
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- Sebastian Wanatowicz
- 11-13-23
Good writing
A book about karma and knowing and not knowing yourself. Overall I enjoyed this book for the genre.
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- Jen D.
- 10-25-23
Slow
A sluggish story line with characters I found difficult to like. The narration was an odd combination of monotone and somewhat over dramatized.
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- Kimberly Krautter
- 09-14-23
Why should I care about these people?
I haven’t disliked a book this much since Eat, Pray, Love and for the same reasons. Utterly self-absorbed characters either bragging or lamenting their privileged lives giving me no reason to care about any of them. Ugh. CurlAltDel.
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