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The Little Clan
The Little Clan | Iris Martin Cohen
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A dazzling debut set in modern-day New York, The Little Clan is a sharp, insightful look at friendship and finding yourself in your twenties Ava Gallanter is the librarian in residence at the Lazarus Club, an ancient, dwindling Manhattan arts club full of eccentric geriatric residents stuck in a long-gone era. Twenty-five-year-old Ava, however, feels right at home. She leads a quiet life, surrounded by her beloved books and sequestered away from her peers. When Ava’s enigmatic friend Stephanie returns after an unplanned year abroad, the intoxicating opportunist vows to rescue Ava from a life of obscurity. Stephanie, on the hunt for fame and fortune, promises to make Ava’s dream of becoming a writer come true, and together they start a literary salon at the Lazarus Club. However, Ava’s romanticized idea of the salon quickly erodes as Stephanie’s ambitions take the women in an unexpected—and precarious—direction. In this humorous yet insightful coming-of-age story, Cohen deftly balances an interrogation of big ideas with an expertly constructed comedy of manners. With eloquent prose and affecting storytelling, The Little Clan is at once a love letter to literature and a deft exploration of what it means to be young and full of hope in New York.
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mcctrish
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The Little Clan is about a 25 year old running the library of a private arts club in Manhattan. I impulse bought it for literary references and I thought it would be a light read. It is not. It is chock full of angst and sorrow and striving and miscommunication and struggles as only finding your way in your early 20‘s can be. It gets quite overwhelming with all the weight of so many emotions and stresses. But it‘s compelling and vivid.

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mcctrish
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I‘m finding the main characters a bit hard to engage with

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introvertedbooks
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Working in a library is becoming bad or my health. I have about 30 books checked out at the moment. Send help! #librarybookhaul #bookhaul #minibookhaul

rather_be_reading 🤣🤣 5y
Crazeedi Oh my, that would be me if I worked there! Happy reading!! 5y
introvertedbooks @Crazeedi Thank you. And it's very hard not to take home all the books! 5y
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HeidiReads
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I liked it fine, but the characters were all so mean to each other. I didn't like that at all. I mean, they were realistically written, but in the most pessimistic way possible. Literature can be fun if we give it a chance.

Ava and Stephanie manage to take the quaint
idea of a 19th century literary salon and ruin it by being angsty and selfish and more than a little idiotic. It's clear that Cohen is writing this way on purpose, but even so.

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HeidiReads
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A diorama of a dead civilization casting a spell.

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SaraHasClass
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This is a coming of age story I found predictable. Because of that, the many archaic literary references & the spoiled and utterly self-absorbed main characters, a snobby bookworm & a determined beauty queen, I found myself completely unable to empathize with either of them or the storyline.

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ReadingEnvy
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Loved this in the beginning, about an awkward twenty something working in a private library/club in New York. Then her "best friend" returns and causes havoc. Ultimately too much friend stuff, pacing off, would have liked a more extended ending.

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BookishMarginalia
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This #April2018 release looks really interesting! 25-year-old Ava is the resident librarian at a Manhattan arts club full of eccentric geriatrics. She‘s perfectly happy with her quiet life until globetrotting friend Stephanie returns with a plan to make Ava into a celebrity writer by starting a literary salon. What could go wrong with this plan? #BlameItOnLitsy #BlameBookishMarginalia #ParkRowBooks

Lacythebookworm That sounds fun! 6y
squirrelbrain Ooh sounds good... and I love books set in NYC! 6y
RebelReader What a fun read! 6y
DivineDiana I am enamored with the idea of a literary salon! Stacked! 6y
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