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• Ghostroots

  Stories

  Aguda, 'Pemi,

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  A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties.

• Martyr!

  Akbar, Kaveh,

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  A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Most

  Anthony, Jessica, 1974-

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  A tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who goes for a swim in her apartment complex’s swimming pool one morning...and won’t come out.

• Catalina

  a Novel

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla,

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  A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival,

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  A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

• All Fours

  a Novel

  July, Miranda, 1974-

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  A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Creation Lake

  a Novel

  Kushner, Rachel,

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  A novel written in short, vaulting sections about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France, full of glittering insights and dark humor.

• My Friends

  a Novel

  Matar, Hisham, 1970-

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  A devastating meditation not only on the unthinkable realities of exile, but also on friendship, family, and the ways in which time tests—and frays—those bonds.

• Yr Dead

  Sax, Sam, 1986-

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  Told in lyric fragments that span both lifetimes and geography, this is a queer, Jewish, diasporic coming of age story that questions how our historical memory shapes our political and emotional present.

• Rejection

  Fiction

  Tulathimutte, Tony,

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  An electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos. These brilliant satires make a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected…Read moreRead more of this annotation