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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She...

A Most Anticipated Novel of 2026 by Time , Town & Country , Bustle , and Zibby Media * February Book Club Pick by Good Housekeeping "Grant Ginder has written The Big Chill of our times...and possibly done an even better job. So Old, So Young is...

"With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of an entire century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled...

The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. Exiled, she is unable to write there and suffers from loneliness, shame, and despair, but then M is invited to give a reading at a literary...