Jackson Clark and Delilah Stewart’s run-ins often end in disaster. While Jackson thrives on routine and organization from the comfort of his radio booth, Delilah loves the spontaneity and adventure out in the field. When they’re partnered against their will to cover a historic snowstorm, they find themselves scrambling to figure out how to work together. Delilah offers Jackson a deal: If he can help her ace this assignment, she’ll help him rediscover his long-lost fun side. But when other feelings start to enter the equation, can Jackson and Delilah withstand the storm?

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Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day—partner, parent, creator, muse—and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.

It’s a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, and Percy—who has no talent for music, just lots of opinions about it—can’t stop herself from overanalyzing the song. And Joe Morrow, fellow student and songwriter, could listen to Percy talk all night. Joe asks Percy for feedback on one of his songs—and the results kick off a partnership that will span years, ignite new passions in them both, and crush their egos again and again.

Eden Sands has been a star for 20 years, but it’s lonely at the top. Her mediocre marriage just ended, her last album flopped, and her upcoming tour hasn’t sold out. But when her team suggests a collaboration with an up-and-coming young star to give her a boost, she balks. Anna Moss is pop music’s rising star. She’s idolized Eden Sands for most of her life—so it’s a dream come true when she’s invited to perform with her at the Grammys. As Anna and Eden rehearse, they soon realize they have more in common than their musical talents. They have to decide if what is between them is a one-hit wonder or worthy of one of the greatest love songs of all time.

10-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. She jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills’ wild ride to glory. But as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set the group on a collision course. The only witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next 29 years trying to disappear. But when her father’s sudden death resurrects the troubled past she tried so hard to bury, she hits the road in search of answers.

Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other.

Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho, a TV debut on Top of the Pops, the cusp of chart success, glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel, Laurel Canyon, and San Francisco during the autumn of ’68. David Mitchell’s novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue’s turbulent life.

Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.

When the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers Opal at a bar’s amateur night, she agrees to make rock music together for Rivington Records. In early 70s New York City, a rival band signed to her label brandishes a Confederate flag at a concert. Opal’s bold protest is a reminder that repercussions are always harsher for black women. Decades later, as Opal considers a reunion with Nev, music journalist S. Sunny Shelton seizes the chance to curate an oral history about her idols. But a nasty new allegation from an unexpected source threatens to blow up everything.

It is 1997, and Amber Young has received the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes Kingston, a member of the biggest boy band in the world. Surrounded by people who only wish to exploit her and driven by a desire for recognition and success, Amber comes of age at a time when public opinion can distort everything and one mistake can shatter a career.

In 1970s Baltimore, 14-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother and singing in her church choir. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess. And even more troublesome: the doctor is a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer for one important job—helping a famous rock star dry out. A week after Mary Jane starts, the rock star and his movie star wife move in for a summer that promises unforgettable rock and roll fiction.

Cassie and Zoe Grossberg were once as dependent on each other as sisters could be, but it’s been two decades since they’ve spoken. As a pop sensation in their early 20s, the sisters were driven apart one terrible night. Now, in their early 40s, Zoe is a suburban mom in New Jersey, and Cassie is living alone, off-grid in Alaska. Zoe’s teenage daughter, Cherry, is desperate to bring the women back together. Cassie and Zoe are forced to confront their past choices and betrayals and decide whether they can be open to forgiveness.

Pop singer Avery Fox has become a national joke after posing scantily clad on the cover of Rolling Stone in a feather warbonnet. What was meant to be a statement of her success as a Native American singer has turned her into a social pariah. She escapes to her estranged grandmother Lottie’s ranch in Oklahoma. Lucas Iron Eyes can’t stand what she represents, but when he’s forced to work with her on the ranch, he can’t get her out of his sight—or his head. They form a tentative truce and make a deal: Avery will help raise funds to save the ranch, and in exchange, Lucas will show her what it really means to be an Indian.

Growing up in dive bars, Toni Bennette’s guitar was her only companion…until she met Sebastian Quick. Seb was Toni’s way out, promising they’d escape their small town together. Then Seb turned 18 and split without looking back. Now, Toni’s all grown up and making a name for herself in Philadelphia’s indie scene. When a friend suggests she try out for a hot new up-and-coming band, Toni is a perfect match…except Seb’s now moonlighting as their manager. No problem. Or it wouldn’t be if Seb didn’t still hold a piece of Toni’s heart…not to mention the key to her future.

Anke Berben, a legendary model and style icon, reveled in headline-grabbing romances with not one but three members of rock band the Midnight Ramblers. Years later, Anke’s role in the death of Mal, the band’s founder and Anke’s husband, is still a mystery. When Mari Hawthorn accepts the job to work with Anke on her memoir, she is dead set on getting to the truth of Mal’s death. As she ingratiates herself into the world of the band, she grows enchanted by these legendary rock stars. She knows she can’t get pulled in too deep, otherwise she’ll compromise her objectivity—and her integrity.

Southern California, 1960s: endless sunny days surfing in Malibu, followed by glittering neon nights at Whisky a Go Go. Carol Donnelly breaks the mold as a legendary female surfer. Her daughters grow up enduring their mother’s absence—physically, when she’s at the beach, and emotionally, the rare times she’s at home. As they grow up and their lives diverge, Mindy finds herself swept up in celebrity, complete with beachside love affairs and parties at the Playboy Club. Meanwhile, Ginger is tugged into the dangerous counterculture of drugs and cults. But through it all, their sense of duty to each other survives.

In the Before, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce’s connection to the world is closed off forever. Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality. The only catch is that she’ll have to do something she’s never done before and go out in public.