Caste-ing Off Expectations – Fiction

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In Renée Ahdieh’s Park Avenue: A Novel, Jia, the ambitious daughter of Korean bodega owners, is living her dream as a Manhattan lawyer. But when she’s tasked with managing the famous billionaire Park family, she’s drawn into a whirlwind of scandal and secrets. As she chases truth and success, she must decide what she really wants – and needs. Emily Everett’s All That Life Can Afford: A Novel follows Anna, a young American who longs for the fairy-tale London she envisioned – far and away from the moldy flat she finds herself in – until she’s swept into the dazzling world of the Wilder family. As she navigates class, lies, and love, she has to ask herself: What will it cost to play the part without losing where she came from? In Kitty ZeldisOne of Them: A Novel, Anne Bishop is a Vassar sophomore and part of a popular group of privileged WASPs. Except none of them knows she’s Jewish and her true name is Miriam. She ignores the casual antisemitism among her friends and classmates, until she becomes fascinated by a girl who’s definitely not a part of her crowd: Delia Goldhush, sophisticated, stylish, brilliant, and unashamedly Jewish. Moderated by Zibby Owens, founder of Zibby Media.
Buy Park Avenue: A Novel – Ahdieh
Buy All That Life Can Afford: A Novel – Everett
Buy One of Them: A Novel – Zeldis

Authors

EMILY EVERETT is an editor and writer from western Massachusetts. Her short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House, and Mississippi Review. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in fiction. Everett grew up on a small family dairy farm, studied English and music at Smith College, and studied abroad for a year at University College London. After graduating, she returned to London to complete her M.A. in literature at Queen Mary University of London. She lived and worked in the UK from 2009 to 2013. Everett has been managing editor of The Common, a literary magazine based at Amherst College, since 2016. There, she edits fiction, manages print and online production, and hosts the magazine’s podcast. All That Life Can Afford: A Novel (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) is her debut novel.

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