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Adam Ross's ambitious novel Playworld follows Griffin, a high school freshman living in New York City in 1980, over the course of a busy and formative year. The setup is intriguing, if a bit ...
Read ReviewThis Historical Deed: The Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Adam Ross's novel Playworld takes place between 1980 and 1981, during which time the characters follow with interest the election, presidency, and attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. The ...
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Samantha Harvey sets her novel Orbital aboard the International Space Station in the near future, imagining its crew of six as they go about their tasks over a single 24-hour period. Traveling at 17,...
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Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize–winning novel Orbital takes place aboard the International Space Station (ISS). On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, ...
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
Shubnum Khan's eloquent and moving debut novel opens in 1932, when a djinn that haunts a house by the sea is in mourning following an unexplained violent event, at once engaging the reader and setting...
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In Shubnum Khan's debut novel The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, set amidst the Indian diaspora of South Africa, fifteen-year-old Sana and her father move into a dilapidated house by the sea that is ...
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City of Night Birds opens in the present day with a flight to St. Petersburg—a homecoming for world-famous ballerina Natalia (also called Natasha) Leonova. Ever since an accident stalled her ...
Read ReviewCity of Night Birds centers on a performance of Giselle, which a world-famous ballerina is going to perform as her first foray back to the stage after a forced hiatus. Giselle is a romantic ballet in ...
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Zelu is a frustrated writer, annoyed by her self-important students and the adjunct teaching load that prevents her from completing her own literary novel. When an outburst in the classroom results in...
Read ReviewNnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author includes an example of a type of metafiction known as an 'embedded narrative'—in other words, the novel contains another novel (in this case a futuristic...
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"Sometimes war can set a woman free," declares Sofia Bottom's larger-than-life intelligentsia mother Clara. The fictional country of Elysia reveres the arts and has evolved beyond all that is ...
Read ReviewNovelist, essayist, and contributor to NPR's This American Life, Heather O'Neill is a literary powerhouse in Canada, where she was born and raised and lives today. Her debut novel Lullabies for ...
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The Secret History of the Rape Kit
by Pagan Kennedy
The story of the woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity.
Going Home
by Tom Lamont
Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss.
The Memory Library
by Kate Storey
Journey through the pages of this heartwarming novel, where hope, friendship and second chances are written in the margins.
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