Loved iti felt right at home with the characters i loved pretty much everything about it there's really nothing i would change except i would really like if it would have been twice as long as it is
The Ensemble (2018)
Others: Positive Forging a familial bond over their shared artistic talents and secrets, four young people navigate a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love reinforce and divide them throughout the course of their lives.
- ISBN:
- 9780735214767
- Length:
- 352 pages
Genres: literary fiction
Lists: …
Similar books
1 of 6
Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors
2024 · 368 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveBlue Sisters tells the story of three exceptional - and exceptionally different - sisters as they return to their family home in New York from their respective lives in Paris, London and LA in the wake of the death of their beloved fourth sister. As they are reunited whilst attempting to cope with this terrible loss, they must navigate addiction, grief and ambition and learn what it takes to fall in love with life again.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also literary fiction80%Similar descriptionsPersonalize your recommendations20%Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
2019 · 320 pages · 8 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveA striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone family, and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also literary fiction81%abookolive loved both14%Similar descriptionsPersonalize your recommendations5%Hausfrau
Jill Alexander Essbaum
2015 · 338 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveAnna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is falling apart. In an effort to restart her life, she turns to Jungian analysis, German language classes, and a series of extramarital affair, whose consequences she cannot foretell.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also literary fiction84%abookolive loved both14%Similar descriptionsPersonalize your recommendations2%Sweetbitter
Stephanie Danler
2016 · 356 pages · 2 reviews
Others: PositiveA lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, alluring world of a famous downtown New York restaurant.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also literary fiction86%abookolive loved bothPersonalize your recommendations14%The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
2003 · 298 pages · 4 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveGogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate the awkward name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited values it represents. Determined to live a life far removed from that of his parents, Gogol sets off on his own path only to discover that the search for identity depends on much more than a name.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also literary fiction86%abookolive loved bothPersonalize your recommendations14%Everything belongs to us
Yoojin Grace Wuertz
2017 · 356 pages · 1 review
Others: Positive"This debut novel takes place at the elite Seoul National University in 1970s South Korea during the final years of a repressive regime. The novel follows the fates of two women--Jisun, the daughter of a powerful tycoon, who eschews her privilege to become an underground labor activist in Seoul; and Namin, her best friend from childhood, a brilliant, tireless girl who has grown up with nothing, and whose singular goal is to launch herself and her family out of poverty. Drawn to both of these women is Sunam, a seeming social-climber who is at heart a lost boy struggling to find his place in a cutthroat world. And at the edges of their friendship is Junho, whose ambitions have taken him to new heights in the university's most prestigious social club, called "the circle," and yet who guards a dangerous secret that is tied to his status. Wuertz explores the relationships that bind these students to each other, as well as the private anxieties and desires that drive them to succeed" --
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also literary fiction87%Similar descriptionsPersonalize your recommendations13%
Loved it