Still Alive
By: LJ Pemberton
4.30
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A hero's journey through a dying empire. On the Road for a beaten generation. After V meets Lex, a …
Want to Read $ 4.99"We were together and not."-LJ Pemberton, Still Alive
"We clung to New York like it could give us purpose, make our lives bigger and more significant by proxy. Or maybe we just wanted an otherwhere with fewer ghosts and more chances to rise and fail."-LJ Pemberton, Still Alive
"She wore her hustle the same as Marilyn wore her femme drag. Breathy attention, exclamations of interest—false, false—and still so captivating. The rich want to believe in the hologram. They always want to believe"-LJ Pemberton, Still Alive
"Breakups and divorces, disappointments and failures, all summoned the old hurt, and I began to wonder if every heartache wasn’t just practice for the eternal separation between the living and the dead. As with any loss, it is not the dead who suffer, but the steady flaming fools left behind."-LJ Pemberton, Still Alive
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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3. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
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4. All Fours
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
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"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
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5. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
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6. Martyr!
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By: Catherine Lacey
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From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
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Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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17. Still Alive
By: LJ Pemberton
4.30
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A hero's journey through a dying empire. On the Road for a beaten generation. After V meets Lex, a … read more
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"We were together and not."-LJ Pemberton, Still Alive
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"She wore her hustle the same as Marilyn wore her femme drag. Breathy attention, exclamations of interest—false, false—and still so captivating. The rich want to believe in the hologram. They always w…"-LJ Pemberton, Still Alive
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