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• AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In the midst of a historic bull run on the crypto markets, Dov Preminger is excited to announce the upcoming release of Glyph, a first-of-its-kind crypto thriller.
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• In Glyph, Preminger ventures into new territory, bringing the same gripping, impossible-to-put-down style to a new genre.
• Glyph is set to be released on January 31, 2024 and is available for preorder now at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CT4Q6DMT .

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• The winner of the award will be announced at the Forest of Reading Festival in Toronto, Ontario in May.
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• Andrew Varga's selection as a Finalist acknowledges his captivating storytelling and dedication to inspiring young minds.
• “My children all attended public school in Ontario, so I know how many talented authors and incredible books are part of the Forest of Reading.

• Or should politics and doing what’s right trump love and happiness?
• These are the questions at the heart of the extraordinary – and controversial – debut novel Everything’s Fine by Cecilia Rabess, a Black woman and former associate at Goldman Sachs.
• Jess, a young, progressive Black woman, and Josh, a white conservative, meet at university – where their political views make them natural opponents, if not enemies.
• But the book begins as their paths cross again: Jess becomes an investment analyst at Goldman Sachs, where Josh’s career is already taking off.

Can love and politics mix?

• Trump’s political trajectory hangs like a Sword of Damocles over Rabess’s novel –and her protagonists’ fragile union.
• The reader knows (but the characters don’t) how it will play out: Trump inexorably building momentum, winning the Republican nomination and ultimately the 2016 election.
• As race and politics come to the cultural forefront, ideological fault lines threaten to tear Jess and Josh apart.
• Rabess’s characters are cleverly crafted to explore the hard questions of love and politics.
• They love each other deeply.

Race, class, gender, politics

• While issues of race and politics build the story’s central point of tension, Rabess enriches the larger picture with intriguing questions of class, wealth, education and gender.
• Here the book’s exploration of politics and relationships takes a subtle turn.
• They share her views on politics and race.
• Here, just as in her love life, Jess must wrestle with how far she should go along to get along.

Not a typical romance

• The book’s early publicity presented it as a steamy romance.
• But the book doesn’t ultimately fit the romance genre.
• Josh is not a typical romantic hero.
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Love in a polarised world

• On the other hand, you might say “no” if you worry about intimate relationships reflecting the corrosion of politics in the wider world.
• Myriad different qualities make up a functioning relationship: love, trust, care, respect, passion, commitment, chemistry, understanding, empathy, shared values.
• There is simply no one-size-fits-all answer to whether love should triumph across political differences.
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Love and argument

• As a fiction writer who’s also written a love story (but not a romance), I admired Rabess’s ability to explore so many complex areas in a single story.
• But as a philosopher who researches the ethics of argument, I was particularly intrigued by the role argument played in the two characters’ unfolding relationship.
• It was through argument the characters were first drawn to one another.
• A university discussion aroused Josh’s interest in Jess and his (perceptive) sense that she wasn’t in ideological lockstep with her friends.