Xochitl Gonzalez

THE REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR MARCH 2024 'I have goosebumps just talking about this story' REESE WITHERSPOON 'Smart, funny - and furious' MARIE CLAIRE 'Genre-busting ... A clear-eyed deconstruction of skewed value systems' FINANCIAL TIMES It's 1985 and Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City. Thirteen years later, art history student Raquel is preparing her final thesis, feeling the pressure to work twice as hard for the same opportunities as the wealthy students around her. Anita's name - and the mysterious circumstances around her death - has all but faded from view. When Raquel becomes romantically involved with a well-connected older student, she finds herself unexpectedly rising up the social ranks. But then she stumbles upon Anita's story, and is struck not only by the question of who gets to leave a legacy, but by how her own relationship eerily mirrors that of the forgotten artist . . . * A NEW YORK TIMES, ELLE AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING HIGHLIGHT FOR 2024 *

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

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Lindsay

Human will is a particularly powerful magic. Alchemy happens when a person truly decides something; when a mind is changed.

Endings, and even beginnings, are tricky things to pinpoint, aren’t they? The conventional mind likes to make them nice and neat, a light switch that goes off and on. ... The Iowa River, for instance, starts when two streams join together in Hancock County. Is one of those streams more the beginning than the other? Endings are the same. Possibly even more nebulous, messy things.

Suzie

White men loved to use words that implied astonishment whenever women of color accomplished anything they deemed their "terrain."

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