{"title":"Contemporary Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eStories set in today's world — our Contemporary Fiction collection explores modern life, relationships, and society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"people-person-by-candice-carty-williams-paperback-336-pages-english","title":"People Person by Candice Carty-Williams: Paperback; 336 pages \/ English","description":"[Gallery]\r\n\r\nThe author of the “brazenly hilarious” (Oprah Daily) Queenie returns with another witty and insightful “treat” (Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession) of a novel about the power of family—even when they seem like strangers.\r\n\r\nIf you could choose your family...you wouldn’t choose the Penningtons.\r\n \r\n Dimple Pennington knows of her half-siblings, but she doesn’t really know them. Five people who don’t have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad’s gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about.\r\n \r\n She’s thirty, and her life isn’t really going anywhere. An aspiring influencer with a wayward boyfriend, Dimple’s life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen. And despite a small but loyal following, she’s never felt more alone in her life. That is, until a dramatic event brings her half-siblings—Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie, and Prynce—crashing back into her life. And when they’re all forced to reconnect with Cyril Pennington, the absent father they never really knew, things get even more complicated.\r\n \r\n Vibrant and charming, People Person is “a way-out combination of family drama, madcap plot, and political edge” (Kirkus Reviews).","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48934840893672,"sku":"9781501196058","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/6732\/7464\/files\/5759a5467101e908ad464092add3f56953b0ed2ed6da68c9b3d7b7f9cd553c16.jpg?v=1787615361"},{"product_id":"we-are-not-like-them-by-christine-pride-paperback-336-pages-english","title":"We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride: Paperback; 336 pages \/ English","description":"[Atria]\r\n\r\nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK\r\n \r\n Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People, Essence, New York Post, PopSugar, New York Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Town \u0026amp; Country, Bustle, Fortune, and Book Riot\r\n \r\n Told from alternating perspectives, this “propulsive, deeply felt tale of race and friendship” (People) follows two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event.\r\n\r\nJen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia.\r\n \r\n But the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen’s husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Six months pregnant, Jen is in freefall as her future, her husband’s freedom, and her friendship with Riley are thrown into uncertainty. Covering this career-making story, Riley wrestles with the implications of this tragic incident for her Black community, her ambitions, and her relationship with her lifelong friend.\r\n \r\n Like Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage and Jodi Picoult’s Small Great Things, We Are Not Like Them takes “us to uncomfortable places—in the best possible way—while capturing so much of what we are all thinking and feeling about race. A sharp, timely, and soul-satisfying novel” (Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author) that is both a powerful conversation starter and a celebration of the enduring power of friendship.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48934842040552,"sku":"9781982181048","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/6732\/7464\/files\/ac9306527fb86a30fe0a9dfd830e515fd5d8f40a976df610cc242a31175555e0.jpg?v=1787615373"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.markedpagesociety.com\/collections\/contemporary-fiction.oembed","provider":"Marked Page Society LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}