In this follow up to her acclaimed debut Olga Dies Dreaming, Gonzalez tells a rich and unique story about two Latina women, living parallel lives a decade apart. Raquel is a working-class Puerto Rican art history student at an exclusive university…
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- Athena Greyson hasn't made the best go of things in her life. She's got multiple degrees, multiple failed careers, and now she's also got a broken engagement, a house she bought as a gift for the ex-fiancé, and nothing better to do than move into…
- Short stories reminiscent of folklore and fairytales are given an unsettling twist in author Nethercott's (Thistlefoot) newest collection. This haunting collection blends together elements of fantasy, surrealism, dark comedy and even horror taking…
- When a young woman is found frozen to death on the doorstep of a local business, the shop owner hires Bao, an amateur detective, to find out what happened. Bao, in his sixties and retired from his day job, has a supernatural knack for telling the…
- Reilly’s debut novel is centered on a warm, offbeat family in Auckland and specifically on 20-something siblings and roommates (Greta and Valdin) as narrators in alternating first person chapters. Both siblings are queer and of Māori and Russian…
- Whether you've read Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or not, most of us are familiar with the tale of Huck and Jim, and their travels along the mighty Mississippi. Percival Everett jolts us into 2024 with his stirring and radical…
- In this short but satisfying and intriguing novella, a Scottish writer in an isolated coastal village decides to embark on a new project, a biography of a novelist and artist she has admired since childhood. But as she gets more deeply involved in…
- Chidgey's unsettling psychological thriller opens in Auckland in 2014 with Justine visiting her elderly father, whose memory and health are in decline in assisted living. His nurse sparks a memory that prompts Justine to recall a formative year in…
- This briskly-paced debut opens on protagonist Piglet, an editor at a London cookbook publisher, shopping for a dinner party she's hosting to warm the new house that she and her upper-class fiancé Kit have just moved into. Nicknamed by her parents…
- This lucid, imaginative exploration of the cultural and scientific legacies of our planet's expansive view of stars from cosmologist and educator Trotta draws connections from the cosmos to the mythological to the material innovations across human…
- The cover of There's Always This Year shows a young boy with lovingly worn Air Jordans, casually sitting atop a neighborhood court's basketball hoop. His eyes are cropped out. Is he watching a game? Is he watching the block? Abdurraqib's lyrical…
- In his highly anticipated follow-up to There There (2023's One Book, One Chicago selection), Orange goes back in time to explore the ancestral line of the Bear Shield and Red Feather families. In part one, we meet Jude Star and, later, his son…
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