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Lionel Shriver, author of Should We Stay or Should We Go

When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can’t cry. Over 10 years, Alzheimer’s had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband, Cyril, have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early 50s, the couple fears what may lie ahead. To spare themselves and their loved ones such a humiliating and protracted decline, Cyril proposes that they agree to commit suicide together once they’ve both turned 80. When their deal is sealed, the spouses are blithely looking forward to another three decades together. But then they turn 80. SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO portrays 12 parallel universes, each exploring a possible future for Kay and Cyril.

Week of June 6, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of June 6th include Lauren Weisberger's WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN AND THE GIRLS ARE PRETTY, a highly entertaining, sharply observed novel about sisters, their perfect lives...and their perfect lies; THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN, in which Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray tell the remarkable story of J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation; THE BOMBER MAFIA, Malcolm Gladwell's riveting exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war; THE OTHER BLACK GIRL by Zakiya Dalila Harris, an electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing; and THE TWELVE LIVES OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK, Edward White's fresh, innovative biography of the 20th century's most iconic filmmaker.