Despite being a huge star, Matthew Perry has had a hard life. His wealth and position allowed him the resources to feed his addictions to the point of near death. Through the book we discover that minus the harrowing addictions, the Chandler Bing character was the spitting image of Matthew Perry.
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The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Tookie is a young Native American woman who makes a bad decision in an effort to help some friends and finds it was a much more serious matter than she knew.
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The End of Everything by Katie Mack
How will the universe end? Will it collapse back in on itself in a reversal of the Big Bang (the Big Crunch theory)? Will it continue to expand even when all the stars are gone (the Heat Death theory)? Will there be a dark energy apocalypse (the Big Rip theory)? Or something completely different?
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The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
This is a strong, beautiful novel about life of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas in 1950s South Dakota when Congress considered terminating the reservation and kicking out all the Native Americans. Two main characters are Patrice, and her uncle Thomas who fights against the termination bill.
Louise Erdrich won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2021 with this work.
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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
In 1921 Elsa Wolcott was dismissed by her family as “‘too’ everything – too tall, too thin, too pale, too unsure of herself”. Eventually she finds her voice, raises her family in the kids of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
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