The Bread the Devil Knead
By: Lisa Allen-Agostini
4.03
Format: 277 pages, ebook
Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a bout…
Want to Read $ 6.94"And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
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1. The Book of Form and Emptiness
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Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
2. The Island of Missing Trees
By: Elif Shafak
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Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A rich, magical new book on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the B… read more
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"She was no part of anything. In her unbroken loneliness, she was complete. Never had she felt so exposed, yet si powerful."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"So I guess it is in my genes, this melancholy I can never quite shake off. Carved with an invisible knife into my arborescent skin."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
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"To immigrants and exiles everywhere, the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless, And to the trees we left behind, rooted in our memories ..."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
3. Elena Knows
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more
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"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
4. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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5. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
6. Remote Sympathy
By: Catherine Chidgey
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Format: 526 pages, Hardcover
Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had fear… read more
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7. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
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Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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8. Pod
By: Laline Paull
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An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more
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"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."-Laline Paull, Pod
9. Build Your House Around My Body
By: Violet Kupersmith
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A century of Vietnam's history and folklore comes to life in this "brilliant, sweeping epic that sw… read more
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"He did not have to have him. He just had to be near him. It was enough."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"I love her but I don't have to have her. I just have to be near her. And that's enough."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"[She knew that] what she felt for him was not love, it was closer to it than she deserved."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"Winnie felt better in the sunlight. She let her hand rest on the tree's ropy trunk. The bark was smooth beneath her fingers. These were the breed of strangling ficus that spent two hundred years brai…"-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
10. Flamingo
By: Rachel Elliott
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A novel of love, homelessness, and learning to be fearless In the garden, there were three flami… read more
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11. Open Water
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.04
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more
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"Trauma makes you considerate."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You are more than the sum of your traumas"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You do not want to die before you can live"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"...love was not always synonymous with care."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
12. Pleasantview
By: Celeste Mohammed
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the suppos… read more
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13. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
14. The Bread the Devil Knead
By: Lisa Allen-Agostini
4.03
Format: 277 pages, ebook
Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a bout… read more
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"And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Tell the truth, I was fed up with the house, fed up with the licks. Fed up with Leo and him blaming me for everything. But you ever find yourself down in a canal? It hard to climb out by yourself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"But people does get on like if you, as a woman who have no man, you not good enough, like you's not a real woman. So if is either stay with a asshole or have no man at all, I rather stay with a assho…"-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
15. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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16. Popisho
By: Leone Ross
3.82
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more
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"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."-Leone Ross, Popisho
17. Panenka
By: Ronan Hession
4.01
Format: 164 pages, Hardcover
His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his… read more
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"But isn't that what allowing yourself be loved is all about -- letting something greater than fear into your life?"-Ronan Hession, Panenka
"To him love was no union between two otherwise incomplete halves, but more like the gravity that locked two bodies into the same orbit"-Ronan Hession, Panenka
"Life should always be like that. Resting safely, with someone looking over you, attending to the little indulgences that loved people enjoy"-Ronan Hession, Panenka
"Aren't you afraid of failing? Letting everyone down?' Esther thought about it. 'Maybe it's important that other people learn how to handle disappointment."-Ronan Hession, Panenka
18. Sorrow and Bliss
By: Meg Mason
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does… read more
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"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
19. Careless
By: Kirsty Capes
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks... At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess f… read more
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20. Salt Lick
By: Lulu Allison
3.66
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Food production has moved overseas. The countryside is empty and once again wild. The rural economy… read more
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21. Creatures of Passage
By: Morowa Yejide
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington,… read more
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"The Conundrum of Three. It's the mind seeking the memory of a body long gone, and the body withdrawing from the mind and the spirit, and the spirit chasing the echo of the other two"-Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage
