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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.
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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.
You Think It, I'll Say It
Ten stories of women and men misjudging one another: a book club, a celebrity, an old school rival, a couple playing a secret game about the people they meet.
Such a Fun Age
A twenty-five-year-old Black babysitter is publicly accused of kidnapping the white toddler in her care, and everyone's performative allyship collapses.
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
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.
The Casual Vacancy
When parish councillor Barry Fairbrother dies suddenly in his forties, his empty seat sets off a war in the pretty English town of Pagford, where rich and poor, parents and teenagers, are each hiding something.
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.
The White Tiger
In letters to a visiting Chinese premier, Balram Halwai tells how he rose from village tea-shop boy to chauffeur for a rich family in Delhi to entrepreneur in Bangalore, exposing India's class system and the price of his escape from it.
Whisper Network
Four women who work at Truviv, a sportswear company in Dallas, learn that the boss they have whispered about for years is about to be made chief executive, just as an anonymous list of men to avoid starts to circulate.
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.
Black Buck
Darren Vender, a twenty-two-year-old barista in a Manhattan Starbucks, is talked into joining a tech startup's sales team by its chief executive, and becomes the only Black salesman in the building.
Groundskeeping
Owen Callahan, twenty-eight, moves back to Kentucky to live with his grandfather and Trump-supporting uncle and takes a job as a groundskeeper at a college so he can sit in on a writing class, where he meets Alma, a Bosnian immigrant writer.
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.