17 Books to Kick-Start Fall
A debut novel reveals the agony and ecstasy of Midwestern youth...Jacqueline Woodson on the power of diversity in kid lit...a new volume collects the letters Nelson Mandela wrote from behind bars...and more.
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Open Me
By Lisa Locascio
288 pages;
Grove Press
Eighteen-year-old Roxana thinks Europe is where she'll find herself—and although she's not wrong, she could never have predicted the Fifty Shades direction her study abroad takes. Locascio's hypnotic first novel is thrillingly naughty and politically germane.
— Michelle Hart
Published 08/24/2018