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About Αν είχα το πρόσωπό σου · Frances Cha
Caro Claire Burke, 2026
Also unease and identity. A sharp, funny novel about the performances women give—at church, online, in marriage—and what it costs to keep the smile in place.
A voice in my head, echoing softly: America hates angry women. The Lord hates angry women. You hate angry women. Do not be an angry woman. Chuck Palahniuk, 1996
Also longing and unease. An insomniac office worker meets a soap salesman who turns his numbness into a basement fight club, then into a movement he can't control.
I come dragging in with every muscle bruised inside and out, but my heart’s still racing and my thoughts are a tornado in my head. This is insomnia. All night, your thoughts are on the air.All night long, you’re thinking: Am I asleep? Have I slept? Sally Rooney, 2017
Also identity and friendship. Two student spoken-word poets fall in with a photographer and her actor husband, and four Dublin lives begin quietly rearranging each other.
After school we used to lie in her room listening to music and talking about why we liked each other. These were long and intense conversations, and felt so momentous to me that I secretly transcribed parts of them from memory in the evenings. When Bobbi talked about me it felt like seeing myself in a mirror for the first time. I also looked in actual mirrors more often. I started taking a close interest in my face and body, which I’d never done before. I asked Bobbi questions like: do I have long legs? Or short? Nita Prose, 2022
Also identity and unease. A hotel maid who loves order and rules finds a dead guest—and must clean up a mystery the police can’t see.
The truth is, I often have trouble with social situations; it’s as though everyone is playing an elaborate game with complex rules they all know, but I’m always playing for the first time. I make etiquette mistakes with alarming regularity, offend when I mean to compliment, misread body language, say the wrong thing at the wrong time. It’s only because of my gran that I know a smile doesn’t necessarily mean someone is happy. Sometimes, people smile when they’re laughing at you. Or they’ll thank you when they really want to slap you across the face. Gran used to say my reading of behaviors was improving—every day in every way, my dear—but now, without her, I struggle. Before, when I rushed home after work, I’d throw open the door to our apartment and ask her questions I’d saved up over the day. Sayaka Murata, 2016
Also identity and society. A woman who has worked in a convenience store for eighteen years finds its manual clearer than society's unwritten rules.
The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me. Kazuo Ishiguro, 2021
Also tenderness and unease. An artificial friend watches a child and the people who love her, trying to learn what makes a person singular—and whether love can be copied.
I think I hate Capaldi because deep down I suspect he may be right. That what he claims is true. That science has now proved beyond doubt there’s nothing so unique about my daughter, nothing there our modern tools can’t excavate, copy, transfer. That people have been living with one another all this time, centuries, loving and hating each other, and all on a mistaken premise. A kind of superstition we kept going while we didn’t know better. Donna Tartt, 1992
Also identity. A California scholarship boy is taken up by a circle of Greek students at an elite Vermont college — and by the thing they have done. A novel about beauty, envy and the cost of belonging.
V.E. Schwab, 2020
Also longing and identity. A girl who cannot be remembered makes a bargain with the dark—and then meets a boy who does.
Nicola Yoon, 2015
Also longing and tenderness. A girl allergic to the world falls for the boy next door—a sealed-room romance about risk, longing, and the cost of being safe.
John Grisham, 1985
Also unease and society. A young associate witnesses a terrifying heist in a high-stakes law firm, forcing him to confront the true power structures that lie beneath the veneer of corporate justice.
Delia Owens, 2018
Also longing and unease. A marsh-raised girl, a suspicious death, and a wild coast that keeps its secrets—for readers who want nature writing with a human mystery at the edge.
Alex Michaelides, 2019
Also society and unease. A psychotherapist tries to make a silent murder suspect speak, and finds his own life caught in her refusal.
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