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The Removed: A Novel
Brandon Hobson
Format: Hardcover
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Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago - from National Book Award finalist Brandon HobsonIn the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been... |
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A Thousand Ships: A Novel
Natalie Haynes
Format: Hardcover
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"With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War." - Madeline Miller, author of CirceShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives... |
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Land of Big Numbers: Stories
Te-Ping Chen
Format: Paperback
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Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers depicts the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled - messily, violently, but still beautifully - into the present. Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical... |
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The Bad Muslim Discount: A Novel
Syed M. Masood · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, Bad Muslim Discount is a hilarious, timely, and provocative comic novel about being Muslim immigrants in modern America. For fans of Hanif Kureshi, Mira Jacob, and Mohammed Hanif.It is 1995, and Anvar Faris... |
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Milk Blood Heat
Dantiel W. Moniz
Format: Hardcover
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A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all.... |
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Remote Control
Nnedi Okorafor · Tor.com
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa -- a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past.Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks -- alone, except for her fox companion... |
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Zorrie
Laird Hunt
Format: Hardcover
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"It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew."As a girl, Zorrie Underwood's modest and hardscrabble home county was the only constant in her young life. After losing both her parents, Zorrie moved... |
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Love Is an Ex-Country
Randa Jarrar · Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called "politically incorrect" (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times) . As an American raised for a time in Egypt, and finding herself captivated by the story of a celebrated Egyptian belly dancer's journey across... |
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Fake Accounts
Lauren Oyler
Format: Hardcover
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On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery: he's an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she's not exactly... |
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Milk Fed: A Novel
Melissa Broder
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Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical... |
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