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Playworld A Novel

Adam Ross

"Starting off 2025 with a novel this terrific gives me hope for the whole year." —Ron Charles, “In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happene...

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This immersive, coming-of-age novel was set in the early 1980s on the Upper West Side and focused on a child actor whose family was involved with a therapist with questionable boundaries. It explored themes of growing up too fast, parental ego, and how memory shapes views of youth.

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Another big, fun novel, immersive novel that I think I will be giving to a number of people this year for the holidays and which I've already given to a bunch of people just for pleasure is Adam Ross'...

— Episode: Sunday Special: Gifting Books for the Ho...

Episode: Sunday Special: Gifting Books for the Holidays

This immersive, coming-of-age novel was set in the early 1980s on the Upper West Side and focused on a child actor whose family was involved with a therapist with questionable boundaries. It explored themes of growing up too fast, parental ego, and how memory shapes views of youth.

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Another big, fun novel, immersive novel that I think I will be giving to a number of people this year for the holidays and which I've already given to a bunch of people just for pleasure is Adam Ross's Playworld.

It is about growing up too fast. It is about parental ego. It is about what memory does to how we think about youth.

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