The Locals by Jonathan Dee

One of my favorite books was "The Privileges" by this author so I snatched this up when it appeared on the shelves of the Library. It started out strong for me and definitely waned as I went along. It seemed like the story took a different path than it started on.
Got some mixed reviews...some very good, but I would not heartily recommend.

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Found this on the 7 day book shelf at the Library and grabbed it....It was a fast and enjoyable read. Here is what Kirkus has to say:

This incandescent portrait of suburbia and family, creativity, and consumerism burns bright.
It’s not for nothing that Ng (Everything I Never Told You, 2014) begins her second novel, about the events leading to the burning of the home of an outwardly perfect-seeming family in Shaker Heights, Ohio, circa 1997, with two epigraphs about the planned community itself—attesting to its ability to provide its residents with “protection forever against…unwelcome change” and “a rather happy life” in Utopia. But unwelcome change is precisely what disrupts the Richardson family’s rather happy life, when Mia, a charismatic, somewhat mysterious artist, and her smart, shy 15-year-old daughter, Pearl, move to town and become tenants in a rental house Mrs. Richardson inherited from her parents. Mia and Pearl live a markedly different life from the Richardsons, an affluent couple and their four high school–age children—making art instead of money (apart from what little they need to get by); rooted in each other rather than a particular place (packing up what fits in their battered VW and moving on when “the bug” hits); and assembling a hodgepodge home from creatively repurposed, scavenged castoffs and love rather than gathering around them the symbols of a successful life in the American suburbs (a big house, a large family, gleaming appliances, chic clothes, many cars). What really sets Mia and Pearl apart and sets in motion the events leading to the “little fires everywhere” that will consume the Richardsons’ secure, stable world, however, is the way they hew to their own rules. In a place like Shaker Heights, a town built on plans and rules, and for a family like the Richardsons, who have structured their lives according to them, disdain for conformity acts as an accelerant, setting fire to the dormant sparks within them. The ultimate effect is cataclysmic. As in Everything I Never Told You, Ng conjures a sense of place and displacement and shows a remarkable ability to see—and reveal—a story from different perspectives. The characters she creates here are wonderfully appealing, and watching their paths connect—like little trails of flame leading inexorably toward one another to create a big inferno—is mesmerizing, casting into new light ideas about creativity and consumerism, parenthood and privilege.
With her second novel, Ng further proves she’s a sensitive, insightful writer with a striking ability to illuminate life in America.

Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo

This was quite a book!  Short but extremely rich and powerful.

It Happens All the Time by Amy Hatvany

Very timely that I read this book just when all of the sexual misconduct allegations were rife:  Louis CK, Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose....and MORE.
This book tells the story of a rape from two different perspectives: the woman and the man and it's done pretty well. The story went on too long, but the issues were real. There was a bit too much melodrama in one part of the book, and I won't give it away, but I do think it's an important book to read.

The Heirs by Susan Reiger

Funny book.....and very entertaining.
From NPR:

Love and sex and money and betrayal make for excellent storytelling. And The Heirs has all of that in excess. As an exploration of the hidden lives of Rupert and Eleanor Falkes, it is a posh soap opera written by Fitzgerald and the Brontes. As a window on a family shaken by death, it is The Royal Tenenbaums, polished up and moved across town.