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Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino

A darkly funny romp through the DC housing market starring blackmail, murder, and the best fictional example of “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss”. Margo, our protagonist, has found the perfect suburban Maryland house to buy to cap her perfect life, and she won’t let anyone outbid her on the open market. It’s a simple premise: how far…

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

A gorgeously bittersweet novel that jumps between two families who inhabit the same home: one in 2016 and the other in the 1880s. For both families, the biggest threat to their lives is the decaying house around them. And in both families the house’s disrepair reflects the decaying society they inhabit. Kingsolver – who is…

Back to the 90s: A decade that feels way too familiar

A deeply-researched account of a nebulous right-wing political coalition that emerged from the leftovers of Reagan era. Ganz focuses on a few of the biggest names of the era: Ross Perot, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan, and Rudy Giuliani and he uses these men to illustrate the counter-revolutionary fervor against the Civil Rights era of the…

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