I loved Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld so much because it perfectly encapsulated a certain experience of boarding school. When I read that it had initially been rejected by 14 publishers, it strangely gave me hope.
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk articulated, perhaps in a fiercer way, much of what I had been experiencing: this whole transformation of the self, the shocking, often violent rebirth of one
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