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Tag: coming of age
6 debut books you should read this October
Each month, Debutiful picks buzzworthy and under-the-radar debut books you should read.
Continue reading “6 debut books you should read this October”Ellie Eaton’s debut coming-of-age novel is Divine
Ellie Eaton is in limbo. She grew up in England and has lived in America for the past decade. She’s both an English writer and an American one. But she’s also neither.
Her book, like her, straddles between an American adulthood and coming-of-age in a British boarding school. The girls in The Divines are nothing like her and her friends, but the spirit is there. Half of the story takes place in the insulated world of a British boarding school where the real world barely matters. The other half is about one of the girls, all grown up, reckoning with the decisions she made decades ago.
I spoke with Eaton about being a British or American writer, coming-of-age novels, and whether or not she was a Divine via phone.
Continue reading “Ellie Eaton’s debut coming-of-age novel is Divine”David Hopen came of age with his coming-of-age debut
David Hopen‘s debut coming-of-age book The Orchard is about an Orthodox Jewish student whose life is transformed when he arrives at a new school. The book follows students on the verge of adulthood and is in part based on a Jewish myth. The book itself took Hopen nearly his entire twenties after he started it while he was the characters’ ages.
I spoke to Hopen about how he grew up along with his book and how it may or may not have changed as he grew further and further away from the age he was writing about.
6 debut books you should read this October
Each month, Debutiful will recommend a handful of buzzworthy and under-the-radar debut books for you to read.
Continue reading “6 debut books you should read this October”Sanaë Lemoine on France, teenagers, and creating The Margot Affair
Sanaë Lemoine has lived all over the globe. When she was creating The Margot Affair, a specific time and place kept calling to her. Thus, Margot was born as a seventeen year old living in Paris.
Margot is on the cusp of adulthood when she decides to change the course of her own life, and as a result changes the trajectory of all of her relatives’ lives. When she reveals she is the secret daughter of a politician and a famous actress, her secret world is unspooled and readers get to watch as the wall of lies built up around her comes tumbling down.
Continue reading “Sanaë Lemoine on France, teenagers, and creating The Margot Affair”9 debut books you should read this June
Each month, Debutiful will recommend a handful of buzzworthy and under-the-radar debut books for you to read.
Continue reading “9 debut books you should read this June”C Pam Zhang struck Gold with her debut novel
C Pam Zhang explores immigration in How Much of These Hills Is Gold, a coming-of-age story of two newly orphaned siblings set during the Gold Rush. It takes bits and pieces of topics you might be familiar with, but stretches those ideas in new ways. The book explores family secrets and young ambition in the face of desperation.
Continue reading “C Pam Zhang struck Gold with her debut novel”6 debut books you should read this November
Each month, I will pick a handful of buzzworthy and under the radar debut books I feel you’ll enjoy.
Continue reading “6 debut books you should read this November”M. Randal O’Wain reveals the raw and honest truth of the South in ‘Meander Belt’
The essays in M. Randal O’Wain‘s debut memoir, Meander Belt, tap into what life was truly like growing up in the rural South. Subtitled “Family, Loss, and Coming of Age in the Working Class South,” the book is a raw and intimate portrayal of an area often at the mercy of stereotypes or often altogether left out of media portrayals.
Continue reading “M. Randal O’Wain reveals the raw and honest truth of the South in ‘Meander Belt’”
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