Katy Hays
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March 2022
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The Cloisters
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2022
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Saltwater
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2025
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11 editions
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Saltwater: A Novel
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"Saint Monica’s words of “You can be the most virtuous woman in the world, and you’ll still carry the blame not just for your desire but everyone’s desire” have stuck with me specifically. This book really shows how powerful men take full advantage of"
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| It's entirely possible I would follow Maria Semple anywhere, but I didn't think that I would be following her into the world of stoicism, nor did I think I would be following her into a potential den of international intrigue (I cannot say more--spoi ...more | |
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I'm sorry, but let's get real: HOLY SHIT. It's so rare for a book to rise up and meet the hype, but to see a novel soar past it? Good grief. This book is searing, hilarious, awful, and transfixing. It's also perfectly plotted. Perhaps the best part? ...more |
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| Mary McCarthy's THE GROUP for our contemporary world (extremely complimentary), CLUTCH is a novel about five friends grappling with what it means to enter a new decade and how the bonds of our past can sustain our future. It's as languid as an aftern ...more | |
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"* thanks to Doubleday for the NetGalley review copy (pub date: April 14, 2026)
This is one of those books that's going to be really hard for me to talk about without sounding like an absolute lunatic, and all I want to do is talk about how fantastic i" Read more of this review » |
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The best thing I've read in years and somehow that still undersells it? Julia Langbein is the patron saint of readers everywhere. May she be canonized. Amen. ...more |
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“But that was the hardest thing about death: the unrelenting march of time forward, away from the person you’ve lost.”
― The Cloisters
― The Cloisters
“And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before.
[Ann Stilwell]”
― The Cloisters
[Ann Stilwell]”
― The Cloisters
“What if our whole life—how we live and die—has already been decided for us? Would you want to know, if a roll of the dice or a deal of the cards could tell you the outcome? Can life be that thin, that disturbing?”
― The Cloisters
― The Cloisters
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