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Last call at the hotel imperial6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Sixteen-year-old Alice is stressed about her SATs, figuring out which boy she’s going to kiss at her birthday party, and has not considered that her father’s days could ever be numbered. Forty-year-old Alice is unmarried, working in admissions at her old high school, and caretaking for her ill father, who happens to be a renowned sci-fi novelist. ![]() Emma’s latest follows Alice, a woman who falls asleep on her fortieth birthday and, to her surprise, wakes up on her sixteenth. There is such a warmth to Emma’s writing-the care she takes in introducing us to her characters, the clear love she has for them in all their messiness that makes us love them, too. Whenever I dip into a new Emma Straub book, it always feels like home: I can walk right into the living room, kick off my shoes, and find a place waiting for me in a comfy chair. ![]()
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