In Kristen Arnett’s Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: A Novel, Cherry is a down-on-her-luck professional clown who juggles gigs, side jobs, and family drama. Enter Margot the Magnificent, an alluring magician whose mentorship – and attraction – push Cherry to risk it all. Facing some big questions, she’ll have to decide what kind of clown she wants to be underneath her suit. Jade Chang’s What a Time to Be Alive: A Novel follows Lola, a broke, grieving, and unemployed woman who becomes an unexpected internet folk hero. As fame and influence sweep her up, Lola grapples with loss, questions about her missing mother, and the line between scammer and sage – examining belief, the precarity of fame, and the courage to truly be seen.
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KRISTEN ARNETT is the author of With Teeth: A Novel, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction, and The New York Times bestseller Mostly Dead Things: A Novel, which was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times; Time, The Cut; O, The Oprah Magazine; and elsewhere. She lives in Orlando, Florida.
