This month, our main read is Karen Russell's epic look a community's response to dustbowl disasters, The Antidote. Our subread is a comedy of unlikely parenthood and responsibility, Going Home.

Many of us liked but didn't love this meditation on commercialism and reality television. We thought Rawle did a terrific job of using limited perspective to mirror the emotion fun house of the show, but the lack of detail about the world and some missed opportunities in the plot pushed some NUBClubbers too far. We're torn on recommending it.

An interesting meditation on faith, friendship, and family, most of us liked Lacey's meandering exploration of breakups through both memoir and fiction, but some of us were turned off by her choice of stylistic sloppiness.