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İnci Atrek, author of Holiday Country

Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, endless olive groves and her spirited friends make it easy to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels that she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious man from her mother’s past, shows up in their town, Ada can’t help but imagine a different future for her mother --- one that promises a return to home, to love, to happiness. But while playing matchmaker, Ada has to come to terms with her own intensifying attraction to Levent. Does the future she’s fighting for belong to her mother --- or to her alone?

Week of January 6, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of January 6th include YELLOWFACE, a chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R. F. Kuang that grapples with questions of diversity, racism and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media; KING: A Life by Jonathan Eig, the first major biography in decades of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. --- and the first to include recently declassified FBI files; NONE OF THIS IS TRUE, an unputdownable psychological thriller from Lisa Jewell that follows a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast; Lisa Gardner's STILL SEE YOU EVERYWHERE, a twisty novel of suspense featuring missing persons expert Frankie Elkin, who is tasked with locating the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks’ time; and MY FRIENDS by Hisham Matar, a luminous novel of friendship, family and the unthinkable realities of exile.