What Fiction are you reading this week, July 30, 2023?

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16. House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

Debut novel getting good reviews.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/25/1171852627/monica-brashears-novel-house-of-cotton-book-review

Monica Brashears' House of Cotton is hard to classify.

On the surface, it's a Black southern gothic novel about a young woman learning to navigate life alone. But it's also a creepy ghost story with a sense of humor, a narrative about survival, and a strange tale of loss and grief sprinkled with sex, abuse, empathy, and a deep look at what it means to be dealt a rough hand at life from the very beginning.