Showing results for "Millennial Fictions" in Literary Fiction

With the snow falling fast on a New Hampshire mansion, seven 20-somethings gather for a weekend that will change their lives irrevocably. The extravagant trip to celebrate Will and Jessica's upcoming nuptials brings together a cast of characters who know each other from Ivy League schools and childhood Upper East Side haunts. There is Lulu, an LA-based Instagram influencer; Maxie, a former Park Avenue princess, now Midwestern housewife; Yael, an ER doctor from Ohio; Rob, a colorless Wall Street trader; Will, a morality-obsessed lawyer; Jessica, Will’s perfectionist bride-to-be....

'Funny, bleak, delicious, totally terrifying. I could not put it down' Ella Risbridger 'An acerbically witty and haunting state of the times debut' Charlotte Paradise Danielle MacKinnon's nearly thirty and still hasn't got her life sorted. She's broke, hates her job as PA to the blithely...

An addictively gripping queer coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction. Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her...

Fin dove è giusto spingersi per realizzare i propri sogni? Qual è il limite dell'ambizione? E dell'amore? "Le stelle cadranno tutte insieme" racconta il legame fra tre ragazzi che abbandonano la provincia con un solo obiettivo: diventare famosi. Aria, eterea come il suo nome, vede i morti intorno a lei ed è convinta di poterci parlare. Danny vuole fare l'attore, è bisessuale e vive la sua vita come fosse un film epico e lui il protagonista. Infine c'è l'io narrante, l'anima inquieta del trio, che vorrebbe scrivere una sceneggiatura per leggere il suo nome sul grande schermo.

Eine junge Mutter, ein erfolgreicher Charmeur, eine Immobilienmaklerin: Eigentlich geht es ihnen ganz gut. Dann kommt der Tag, an dem ihr Leben aus dem Ruder läuft - endlich. Alle begegnen sie jemandem, der sie auf eine Weise erkennt, wie es nur ein Fremder kann. Und durch den sie merken, was ihnen fehlt, um in sich selbst heimisch werden zu können - und vielleicht sogar glücklich.

For fans of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell and The Futures by Anna Pitoniak, a soul-piercing debut that explores the intertwining of past and present, queerness, and coming of age in uncertain times. Willa's darkness enters Hesper's light late one night in Brooklyn. Theirs is a whirlwind...