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This week on The Ribbon’s Carriage Return, where Literati booksellers gab about all things exciting in the world of new releases:

Atticus read What to Do About the Solomons just because their last name is in the title. They ended up loving it anyway.

Mairead discusses the weird heroes and expansive thrills of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley.

Bennet addresses the necessary topic of how women move through urban spaces with Flaneuse (which also just became my new favorite word). 

Check back every week to see what the Literati Book Ninjas are messin’ with.

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The Pes­simists by Bethany Ball

The Pes­simists by Bethany Ball

From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist Bethany Ball comes a biting and darkly funny new novel that follows a set of privileged, jaded Connecticut suburbanites whose cozy, seemingly picture-perfect, lives begin to unravel amid shocking turns of fate and revelations of long-held secrets. Welcome to small-town Connecticut, a place whose inhabitants seem to have it all — the status, the…

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Bethany Ball Chats with Sarah Gerard

Bethany Ball talks about her novel What To Do About the Solomons, turning her MFA thesis into a novel, and writing about kibbutz life.

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They are searching for drugs or diamonds. Money or meth labs. Perhaps they are looking for missing limbs and stolen organs. She has never read mystery novels. She doesn’t watch crime shows on television. She is the daughter of schoolteachers. Her father is an art history professor in the Midwest. Her mother has died. Why has no one prepared her for this moment?

Bethany Ball