Sapph-Lit | Long Island Girls: A Novel
Long Island Girls: A Novel
Gabrielle Korn
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A sharply observed, deeply nostalgic coming-of-age story set against the indie music scene of the early 2000s. It's 2005, and Susan is barreling down the Long Island Expressway driving a car full of friends to an indie rock show. Eliza is a surprise addition in the backseat—unexpected, out of place, and impossible to ignore. Their connection is immediate, electric, and complicated from the start, shadowed by the kind of small-town rumors that have a way of sticking. As quickly as they come together, they part. As Susan moves from Long Island to Brooklyn, from college to the insular world of indie labels, she begins to carve out a life in music, and the future she always dreamed of. Yet the scene that once felt like home reveals its limits, forcing her to confront who gets to belong, who gets to create, and what it costs to stay.
When Susan and Eliza reconnect years later, the pull between them hasn’t faded—but neither have the unresolved histories that first drove them apart. As past and present collide, Susan is caught between two worlds—where she's from, and where she's trying to go.
Moving between the raw intensity of youth and the clarity of hindsight, Long Island Girls captures the ache of growing up, the messiness and joy of queer identity, and the way music, memory, and desire shape who we become.
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Nina
• Jul 24
Hello my Bindery Babes! I know it's only been a few weeks since we voted on what to read for August, but I want to give our library Sapph-Litties extra time to reserve our September read if need be.
I usually have Sapph-Lit picks planned out at least three months in advance, but I feel like time has been flying and it's been hard to keep up this summer especially! This is me setting the intention to plan better as we go into our last four reads of 2026, all of which are FICTION.
As always, I've compiled a longlist of books I'm seeing all over social and on bookstore shelves as of late. Scroll through the covers to see what stands out to you and click into them to learn more about them. These are titles that are exciting to me and I want to introduce you to!
If there is anything in here that speaks to you, shout it out in the comments, and even better, if there's a title you don't see please share that too!
Have a WONDERFUL weekend my Sapph-Litties -- love you all so much and thank you for being here! Let's end this summer with a BANGER of a read xoxo Nina