Claire Messud

That is less here.

This is more in the sort of like big bustling, like social coming-of-age novel like Claire Messud, like The Emperor's Children or something like that.

I think people are gonna be delighted.

So that is The Brightness by Chad Harbach.

Joshua Cohen describes the book as sweet, dry, mournful and horny.

Claire Messud finds it hilarious and heartbreaking.

Eli Zuzowski is a writer and filmmaker Born in Israel, he now lives in New York and holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford.

He was selected for the London Library Emerging Writers' Program and is the winner of the 2025 Einstein Fellowship.