Our main novel this month is a dystopian story of consumerism read through reality television, Aisling Rawle's The Compound. We're subreading Cámara's queer baroque satire of swashbuckling adventure, We Are Green and Trembling.

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.

Jones had some interesting themes and powerful symbolism in this historic horror story, but the framing and conclusion soured the book for some of us and ruined it for others.