
April '25 Pick
All That Life Can Afford
Emily Everett
Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown libraryβits Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But when she finally arrives...
From Our Book Lover-In-Chief
Aprilβs Reese's Book Club pick had me hooked the moment I started the audiobook.
All That Life Can Afford by Emily Everett is about love, ambition, and the cost of belonging, and I cannot stop thinking about it.


FROM THE AUTHOR
Emily Everett
Emily Everett is an editor and writer from western Massachusetts. Her short fiction appears in Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House, and Mississippi Review. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Fiction. Everett grew up on a very small family dairy farm with her parents and two sisters, studied English and music at Smith College, and studied abroad for a year at University College London. After graduating, she returned to London to do an MA in literature at Queen Mary University of London. She lived and worked there from 2009 to 2013. Everett has been managing editor of The Common, a literary magazine based at Amherst College, for eight years. At The Common, she edits fiction, manages print and online production, and hosts the magazine's podcast. All That Life Can Afford is her debut novel.
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