Hunger and Thirst

Hunger and ThirstFrom the celebrated author of Bitter Orange and Swimming Lessons comes an eerie and captivating new novel of complicated friendship and the desperate, sometimes disastrous need to belong. 1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen year old Ursula finds herself with a new job delivering mail at a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, anddelightfully some new friends, including wild child, Sue. When Ursula is

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best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining

A not-quite-human proprietor menaces guests at a hotel on the edge of a swamp

In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont

He continues to feel that a part of himself has been left in the sky

or with her son

And when she flips through some of his books

and human connection

As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer

the Great Khan

who played Jerry (or Garry or Larry) on Parks and Recreation and co-hosts the hit podcast Parks and Recollection

" ― Max Brallier