Friendship
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2024 category: Friendship. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. GN=Graphic novel
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Bird Summons
Fiction. Three active members of a Muslim Women’s group take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, where each confronts the contrast between their hearts and their realities.
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Adult Drama
Nonfiction. Natalie Beach became an internet sensation when her essay on her toxic friendship with Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway went viral. Now, for the first time, and in her own indelible voice, Beach offers a revelatory glimpse into her own life alongside a broader cultural criticism of the world today. Through stories of heartbreak, odd jobs, political activism, existential crises and low-rise jeans, Natalie Beach explores the high stakes and absurdist comedy of coming of age in a world gone mad.
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Sisterhood Heals
Nonfiction. A licensed psychologist and host of the award-winning mental health podcast Therapy for Black Girls helps us foster relationships that are not only positive, but transformative, bringing the warmth, wisdom, empathy and levity to remind us that during difficult times, sisterhood is often a much-needed lifeline
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Meddling Kids
Fiction. In Meddling Kids, Catalonian author Edgar Cantero portrays a reunion of old friends who decide to complete some unfinished business in the resort town where they spent their summers as kids. While pitting good against evil, Cantero pays homage to H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, the bumbling but resourceful gang in Scooby-Doo (yes, there are four kids and a dog), and a full range of road trip, haunted house, and reclusive wizard tropes. This gripping escapade (with touches of quirky humor) will have you rooting for the sympathetic, well-drawn kids -- now adults -- as your knuckles all turn white.
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The Scapegracers
YA Fiction. Forging an unexpected coven with the three most popular girls in school, an outcast lesbian witch casts curses, searches for love and eludes fundamentalist witch hunters while privately struggling with the realities of human friendships and supernatural perils.
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The Other Significant Others
Nonfiction. Inviting us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner, a producer and editor for NPR offers a powerful narrative on platonic partnerships and how the thrill, intimacy and commitment we seek is often found through meaningful friendship
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Crow Talk
Fiction. The best-selling author of The Music of Bees returns with the story of the unlikely friendship between a lonely ornithologist and an Irish musician working to save an injured crow in the wild beauty of the Pacific Northwest.
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Fiona and Jane
Fiction. Two best friends since elementary school, both Taiwanese Americans, navigate their grown-up lives and discover their friendship strained by distance and unintended betrayals after Fiona Lin moves to New York and Jane Shen stays in California.
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One in A Millennial
Nonfiction. In this laugh-out-loud book filled with keen observations, a pop culture commentator and host of the millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five both celebrates and criticizes the culture that shaped her as a woman, tackling AOL Instant Messenger, American Girl Dolls, Spice Girl feminism, millennial motherhood and more.
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The Bright Side Running Club
Fiction. Josie Lloyd’s fearless novel is a tribute to the power of the human spirit in the face of hardship, based on the author’s own experience with cancer and community.
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