Right after turning forty, Steve Grove packed up his life in Silicon Valley and moved back to his home state of Minnesota. He is now the publisher and CEO of the Star Tribune newspaper, embarking on a reinvention for that longstanding publication that parallels his own. As he navigates all of it, Grove’s journey becomes not just about changing careers or moving home—it’s about rediscovering purpose.

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Great Black Hope opens on Labor Day weekend in the Hamptons, when police officers descend and arrest a young Black man named Smith for cocaine possession. In the blink of an eye, his life transforms from charmed to a nightmare. As he struggles to adjust to his changed reality, while also mourning the loss of his best friend from an overdose, he confronts issues of race, class, addiction, and much more, in this propulsive, beautifully written debut novel.

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Kostya has a truly unique gourmet talent – he experiences vivid aftertastes, which he identifies (with some help from a ghost and a psychic) as tastes that are coming from the dead. Aftertaste, the buzzy debut novel by author Daria Lavelle, is like a mashup of the food-centric magical realism in Like Water For Chocolate and a restaurant memoir like Sweetbitter.

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