In Elliott Holt’s debut-novel You Are One of Them Jenny Jones’ harbinger of doom comes in the guise of her best friend Sarah Zuckerman. Sarah’s an anxious kid who grows up in the shadow of a dead sister, a father who went back to England, and her mother’s various anxieties and obsessions, one of which is nuclear holocaust caused by the escalating tensions of the Cold War.

People, this book is so good that I don’t even know where to begin. It’s the kind of book that while I was in the midst of reading it I would randomly bring it up in conversation just so I could talk about it. It demanded talking about. Read More.