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Goddess Complex
Goddess Complex: A Novel | Sanjena Sathian
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Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2025 by TIME and The Millions From the author of Gold Diggers, a biting examination of millennial adulthood, the often fraught conversations around fertility and reproduction, and the painful quest to forge an identity Sanjana Satyananda is trying to recover her life. Its been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to resurrect her busted anthropology dissertation and crashing at her annoyingly perfect sisters while her well-adjusted peers obsess over marriages, mortgages, and motherhood. Sanjana needs to move forwardand finalize her divorce, ASAP. Theres just one problem: Killian is missing. As Sanjana tries to track him down, shes bombarded with unnerving calls from women seeking her advice on pregnancy and fertility. Soon, Sanjana comes face to face with what her life might have been if shed chosen parenthood. And the road not taken turns out to be wilder, stranger, and more tempting than she imagined. A darkly funny, vertiginous novel about the dilemmas of procreation, pregnancy, and parenting, Goddess Complex is a twist-filled psychological thriller and a feminist satire of our age of GirlBosses turned self-care influencers, optimization cults, internet mommy gurus, egg freezing, and much more.
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In this startling and intriguing book, Sanjana Satyananda is a broke graduate student seeking a divorce from her husband after ending an unwanted pregnancy. At some point her desires have diverged from those of the women around her, and she seems intent on wrecking the few relationships she has left. Things take a strange turn when she travels to India in search of her husband, only to find her Other, a mysterious woman named Sanjena Sathian.

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Super excited for another year of #CampLitsy25 Thanks to the always wonderful hosts @BarbaraBB @Megabooks and @squirrelbrain

I was prepping my list earlier this week (it was a VERY quiet night at work), so I'm all set to go! Tagged one, will tag the others in the comments! Happy Camping! Can't wait to see what everyone nominates, apologies to my overloaded TBR 🤣🤣🤣

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squirrelbrain I‘ve only heard of the Goddess Complex, but that‘s why we love camp so much - it brings so many new books! I loved Fault Lines by Itami so definitely going to check that one out. 2w
Ruthiella Interesting selection! 👍 2w
BarbaraBB I haven‘t heard of any of these but I trust your choices and am so excited to check them out! 2w
Suet624 I don‘t know how you all know of these books! So many I‘ve never heard of. 2w
Deblovestoread These all sound fantastic! 2w
sarahbarnes What @BarbaraBB and @Suet624 said! Thank you for adding to my TBR! 😁 2w
TheKidUpstairs @squirrelbrain I loved Fault Lines, too. I was so excited that she's got a new one coming out! 2w
Megabooks I don't have any of these on my radar! Thanks for nominating them! 2w
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