#lee conell

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Stephanie Ross’s (@sross ) cover design for Lee Conell’s The Party Upstairs. Link to an article behind the creation process in source.

[bookish-thinking]

Coming Soon ...

To be published July 7th: 

“A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor” by Hank Green, the sequel to “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing”, which I loved, and I pre-ordered this one because I am so excited for how the story continues. “One Year of Ugly” by Caroline Mackenzie is contemporary fiction about a Venezuelan family living illegally in Trinidad, and the tumultuous year that follows this arrangement. “The Party Upstairs” by Lee Conell is about a single day in the life of the residents of an apartment building, among them the daughter of the super, who deals with issues of class and her parents’ expectations. And “Girl, Serpent, Thorn” by Melissa Bashadoust is a queer YA fantasy about a girl who kills with her touch and is therefore forced into loneliness and isolation.

Published on July 9th, “Loveless” by Alice Oseman - what can I say? It is Alice Oseman, it is ace-representation, I have pre-ordered it. That’s all. July 14th sees “Utopia Avenue” by David Mitchell hit the shelves, a historical fiction novel about a strange underground band and their rise to fame. Coming out July 21st is “The Year of Witching” by Alexis Henderson, a YA fantasy about a girl living in a puritanical society who finds hidden powers within her to rebel. And lastly, also on July 21st, “Pew” by Catherine Lacey, a novel in which a "genderless, racially ambiguous” mute stranger brings out the secrets of the small town that host them and fills their blank identity with ideas of their own.

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The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell Design by Stephanie Ross (Penguin Press / July 2020) ISBN : 978-1984880277

[quicklit]

During World War II, the monastery was converted into a small naval base. Frank paints touching portraits of soldiers under big church bells, gripping guns. The bells now are lost. So are the soldiers, so are the monks. But to up his tour’s lyricism, Frank talks mostly about the bells. The story goes that the monastery bells were dismantled and thrown into the sea by a formerly devout soldier, turned deaf by the booms of bomb explosions and turned atheist by the bomb explosions themselves.

Lee Conell, “A Guide to Sirens,” 2015