Each month, Debutiful will recommend a handful of buzzworthy and under-the-radar debut books for you to read.
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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”Tomasz Jedrowski shines a light on queer romance in Poland in ‘Swimming in the Dark’
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski is a captivating portrayal of queer love in Europe at a time when relationships between men were staunchy looked down on. Though, as Jedrowski explained in a letter that accompanied the advance copy of his debut novel, he reminds readers that many of the LGBTQ+ community in Poland still hides their true identities out of fear.
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