Asha Elias’ The Namaste Club: A Novel is a sly, hilarious beach read about rich people behaving badly. At a luxe Florida yoga retreat, wealthy divorcées, an heiress who’s taken a vow of silence, a tradwife in hiding, and a man-bunned instructor collide during Transcendence Week. Some will be living their best life – and some will get their comeuppance. Nicky Gonzalez’s Mayra: A Novel follows Ingrid as she gets an out-of-the-blue call from her childhood best friend, Mayra, who invites her to a weekend getaway at a house in the Everglades. From the beginning, danger looms in this surreal story about the power of friendship – and the lengths we’ll go to earn love and acceptance. In Joe Pan’s Florida Palms: A Novel, best friends Eddy, Cueball, and Jesse are fresh out of high school along Florida’s Space Coast, and jobs are scarce. But the gig they find working at the furniture-moving company run by Cueball’s father quickly devolves into drug-running – with gangsters, meth zombies, bloodshed, and an all-out turf war that will test the bounds of friendship.
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Writer, mother, and reluctant socialite ASHA ELIAS is the author of Pink Glass Houses: A Novel. She graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in print journalism, has contributed to Cosmopolitan, and is the sex and dating columnist for Miami New Times. She lives with her family in Miami Beach.
