Paperback releases for the week of June 9th include THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB, Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan, which finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances; JACKIE, a mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from Dawn Tripp, who has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention; Janice Hallett's THE EXAMINER, an innovative page-turner --- told in emails, text messages and essays --- that follows a group of students in an art master’s program that goes dangerously awry; and two paperback originals: JILL IS NOT HAPPY by Kaira Rouda, a twisty and page-turning domestic thriller in which an ill-fated road trip resurrects a married couple's darkest secrets, and Amy Poeppel's FAR AND AWAY, a charming novel about a house swap gone wonderfully awry.
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