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  • Ocean Vuong
    Hardcover: 05/13/2025
     
    Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we ...
  • Abraham Verghese
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Winner: BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023

    From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone ...
  • Wiz Wharton
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a ...
  • Eve J. Chung
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the ...
  • Liann Zhang
    Hardcover: 04/29/2025
     
    In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin's influencer life, ...
  • Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
    Hardcover: 04/15/2025
     
    From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a ...
  • Audition: A Novel
    Katie Kitamura
    Hardcover: 04/08/2025
     
    One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel ...

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