The Floating Library stays close to home port for a look at a trio of exceptional debut novels by Andy Roe, Celeste Ng and Shanna Mahin, who was reviewed in the New York Times last week. An excerpt:
Oh! You Pretty Things is also about class, but you’d be hard pressed to find a class struggle this entertaining. When the story prepares you for a Hollywood ending, the long-suffering, acid-tongued narrator (“If I were a cutter, I’d have crop circles on my thighs”) brings the funny.