Summer thrills
Wellness retreats, escape rooms and book clubs may not be typical settings for riveting page-turners. But for the characters in these novels, games and getaways carry life-or-death stakes. Though the dangers that lurk are of the usual variety—the protagonists’ own dark pasts, for example—the most insidious are the anxieties attendant to privilege.
Her Daughter’s Mother
Daniela Petrova
Lana Stone didn’t intend to follow her egg donor, a Columbia student named Katya Dimitrova, off the subway car. Nor did she mean to strike up a friendship with her or go clubbing together soon
