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J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Friends and Strangers

Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly 20 years in New York City. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister's Instagram feed, and text messages with the best friend she never sees anymore. Enter Sam, a senior at the local women's college, whom Elisabeth hires to babysit. Sam is struggling to decide between the path she's always planned on and a romantic entanglement that threatens her ambition. In short order, they grow close. But when Sam finds an unlikely kindred spirit in Elisabeth's father-in-law, the true differences between the women's lives become starkly revealed and a betrayal has devastating consequences.

Week of April 26, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of April 26th include THE SENTINEL, the 25th entry in the Jack Reacher series and the first collaboration between Lee Child and his brother, Andrew Child, whose protagonist ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee --- but there’s nothing pleasant about the place; THE LAW OF INNOCENCE, a heart-stopping thriller from Michael Connelly, in which Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller must defend himself against murder charges; HELLO, SUMMER, the latest book from the Queen of the Beach Reads, Mary Kay Andrews, which revolves around small town scandals and big-time secrets; FRIENDS AND STRANGERS by J. Courtney Sullivan, an insightful and hilarious novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life; and THE CHIFFON TRENCHES, a deeply revealing memoir by legendary style icon André Leon Talley that captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.