Revenge of the Scapegoat
By: Caren Beilin
3.44
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed le…
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1. First Love
By: Gwendoline Riley
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
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2. Event Factory
By: Renee Gladman
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
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3. After Claude
By: None
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, "the French rat." That at least is how Harriet sees things… read more
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4. The Weight of Things
By: None , Marianne Fritz
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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"..the present is always the best time to spread your arms wide and embrace the whole world, all at once, as best you can."-None, The Weight of Things
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5. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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6. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
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7. Earth Angel
By: Madeline Cash
4.05
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more
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8. Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women
By: Molly Llewellyn
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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9. We Were the Universe
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more
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10. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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11. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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12. Normal Women
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this darkly comic story about how we value female labor—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled… read more
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13. The Hearing Test
By: Eliza Barry Callahan
3.40
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more
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"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
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14. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
By: Danielle Dutton
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more
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15. The Guest Lecture
By: Martin Riker
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more
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By: Giada Scodellaro
3.65
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
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17. Bad Thoughts
By: Nada Alic
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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18. Revenge of the Scapegoat
By: Caren Beilin
3.44
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed le… read more
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19. Temporary
By: Hilary Leichter
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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"Life is a stranger in a crowd whose intentions are unclear and, come to think of it, so is death."-Hilary Leichter, Temporary
20. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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21. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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