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In 1998 Raquel Toledo, a first-generation art history student at Yale from Brooklyn, comes across the work of Anita de Monte, a Cuban-born artist whose death in 1985 left her famous sculptor husband a widower and her own work forgotten.
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On Beauty
Two academic families, the liberal mixed-race Belseys and the conservative Trinidadian-British Kippses, collide in a New England college town in Zadie Smith's update of Howards End.
Come and Get It
At the University of Arkansas in 2017, Millie Cousins, a senior and resident assistant saving to buy a house, accepts an offer from Agatha Paul, a visiting professor writing about young people and money, and lets her interview the girls in her dorm.
The Late Americans
Graduate students and gig workers in Iowa City orbit each other through workshops, slaughterhouses, and dating apps, searching for connection in a precarious economy.
The Marriage Plot
At Brown in the early 1980s, Madeleine, an English major, is caught between Leonard, a brilliant, troubled biologist, and Mitchell, a religious-studies student who believes she is meant for him.
The Henna Artist
In Jaipur in 1955, Lakshmi Shastri, who fled an abusive marriage at seventeen, has made herself the most sought-after henna artist among the city's wealthy women, until a younger sister she never knew she had turns up at her door.
Wonder Boys
Over one chaotic weekend, a stalled middle-aged novelist and writing teacher tries to manage a troubled student, a dead dog, a pregnant mistress, and the 2,600-page novel he cannot finish.
The Great Believers
In 1980s Chicago, art gallery director Yale Tishman watches the AIDS epidemic take his friends, and in 2015 Fiona, the sister of one of them, searches Paris for her estranged daughter.
What's Mine and Yours
When a North Carolina county brings Black and Latino students from the east side into a mostly white high school, two families, Gee's and Noelle's, are bound together for the next twenty years.
The Rules of Attraction
Three college students orbit each other in a haze of parties, sex, and emotional vacancy at a New England liberal arts school.
The Flamethrowers
A young motorcycle racer and artist moves to New York in 1975, falls for the heir to an Italian tyre empire, and follows him to Italy as the radical movements of 1977 erupt.
Friends and Strangers
Elisabeth, a journalist and new mother who has just moved from Brooklyn to a small Hudson Valley town, hires Sam, a college senior, to babysit, and the two become friends across a divide neither of them sees clearly.
The Netanyahus
In 1959, an American Jewish professor at a remote college is assigned to host the visiting Israeli historian Benzion Netanyahu and his three unruly sons, one of them a future Prime Minister.