Top Fall Books of 2019 Will Get You Through the Months Ahead

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir 

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In this singular, gutting memoir, perhaps the most important book of the season, Vanasco interviews her own rapist. Fourteen years later, Vanasco and the high school friend who raped her struggle together through the landmines of a harrowing conversation about consent, betrayal, and rehabilitation. This book lives masterfully in the messy, liminal space between punishment and forgiveness, asking us to consider the path forward from the unthinkable. 
Grand Union: Stories 

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From one of the finest writers of our generation comes a dazzling collection of stories, each of them uniquely witty, perceptive, and generous of spirit. With eleven new stories, in addition to some of Smith’s best-loved pieces from The New Yorker, this collection is sure to enthrall readers of all persuasions, meditating as it does on identity, inheritance, and rebirth. 

salt slow

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In these surreal, muscular stories, all of them unfettered from the demands of realism, Armfield considers womanhood and its visceral discontents. Fangirls turn rabid; puberty produces a monstrous transformation; a post-apocalyptic pregnancy isn’t what it seems. Fusing genres with supernatural grace, Armfield takes the discourse about inhabiting a female body to spooky, surprising places. 
Arias 

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One of our most celebrated poets roars into 2019 with this high-velocity collection of gorgeous, urgent poems about political life, racism, and intimate violence. Olds is as visionary as ever, shining her radiant, forceful voice on subjects that can’t be ignored. 
Girl: A Novel 

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