Magical Realism
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Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted: A Novel
by Ben Okri
Hardcover: Mar 2025
In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a masked ball makes two upper-class British couples see each other in a new light.
A wise, enchanting novel about love, power, and our many selves—past and future, ...
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The Antidote: A Novel
by Karen Russell
Hardcover: Mar 2025
From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their ...
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Held: A Novel
by Anne Michaels
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Mar 2025
A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate
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Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel
by Shelby Van Pelt
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: Mar 2025
Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Debut Award
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
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The Bullet Swallower: A Novel
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, ...
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Wild and Distant Seas: A Novel
by Tara Karr Roberts
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures.
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Let Us Descend: A Novel
by Jesmyn Ward
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years ...
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Time's Mouth: A Novel
by Edan Lepucki
Hardcover: Aug 2023
Paperback: Aug 2024
From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape of California
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Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
by Ananda Lima
Hardcover: Jun 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry―Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima.
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Cecilia
by K-Ming Chang
Paperback: May 2024
An erotic, surreal novella from the author of Organ Meats and Bestiary.
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Wings in the Wild
by Margarita Engle
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Apr 2024
This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights.
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Weyward: A Novel
by Emilia Hart
Hardcover: Mar 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.
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