Home Remedies
By: Xuan Juliana Wang
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In twelve stunning stories of love, family, and identity, Xuan Juliana Wang’s debut collection capt…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Everything memorable is irrational."-Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies
"Everything memorable is irrational."-Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies
"I lectured that the family home was a deposit box of emotions, and that reading other people's diaries was just another opportunity to encounter yourself."-Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies
"I lectured that the family home was a deposit box of emotions, and that reading other people's diaries was just another opportunity to encounter yourself."-Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies
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1. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
By: Charles Yu
3.45
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am."-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself."-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits."-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire."-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
2. Sour Heart
By: Jenny Zhang
3.69
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and s… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
- adult
"Another scar that faded enough to be just another mark we carried."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
"They were a sign of patronage, a sign of having so much money that it had to be squandered on objects with no purpose except to be beautiful or interesting."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
"[…] until we were living hour to hour, minute to minute, and even then, I still believed in my father, who insisted there had to be something—anything—to look forward to."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
"From that point on, I would refer to him as "your uncle" and he would mostly refer to me as "your aunt" and it would take a longtime for our children to even understand that we were siblings first."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
3. Hotel Iris
By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa--author of The Diving Pooland The Housekeeper and the Profes… read more
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4. Kinder Than Solitude
By: Yiyun Li
2.83
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, "one of America's bes… read more
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5. History of Wolves
By: Emily Fridlund
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minne… read more
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6. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
7. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-Reum
4.02
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
8. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
9. Ghosted
By: Jenn Ashworth
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband Mark vanishes, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For week… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
10. Rental Person Who Does Nothing
By: Shoji Morimoto
3.34
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- adult
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
11. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)
By: Keigo Higashino
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more
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- asia
- fiction
12. The Aosawa Murders
By: Riku Onda
3.60
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
The novel starts in the 1960s when 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a party given by the owner… read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
"Green that verges on darkness."-Riku Onda, The Aosawa Murders
"Every person spoke in the sincere belief that what they said was the absolute truth, but if one thinks about it, it's difficult to describe an actual event in words exactly as one sees it. More like …"-Riku Onda, The Aosawa Murders
13. The Centre
By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
'I'm hungry to go on this journey. Sofie is smashing and remoulding her readers understanding of se… read more
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15. Orange World and Other Stories
By: Karen Russell
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swampl… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- adult
- fiction
"People talk about heredity as if it’s linear and vertical. Dead people pass things “down"-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"March 1. DEAR BABY: I like the way you turn in half circles on the mattress, like a senile clock."-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"How true can this sensation of unity really be if you need to leave everyone you care about to get it."-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
"I needed a darkness that would have killed the others. And they needed me to keep it a secret from them."-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories
16. By the Book
By: Amanda Sellet
3.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
As a devotee of classic novels, Mary Porter-Malcolm knows all about Mistakes That Have Been Made, e… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"You said she had a condition?"-Amanda Sellet, By the Book
"To my fellow readers: I hope you never run out of good books."-Amanda Sellet, By the Book
"When's the last time you took a risk? I'm talking IRL, not in your reading material."-Amanda Sellet, By the Book
"Your life," she corrected. "It's the nature of existence. To err is human. We screw up, and then screw up some more."-Amanda Sellet, By the Book
17. Evening in Paradise: More Stories
By: Lucia Berlin
3.94
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lu… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Existe un vínculo entre los pacientes de diálisis, como entre los alcohólicos anónimos o los supervivientes de un terremoto. Son conscientes del indulto, se tratan unos a otros con más ternura y resp…"-Lucia Berlin, Evening in Paradise: More Stories
"Miksi muka on hienostunutta olla ikävystynyt? Tyylikkäillä matkailijoilla ja teatterissa kävijöillä on usein sama tuskastunut, ikävystymisestä kielivä ilme. Miksei voisi sanoa: "Ai matka? Miten jänni…"-Lucia Berlin, Evening in Paradise: More Stories
"Hay cosas de las que la gente nunca habla. No me refiero a las cosas difíciles, como el amor, sino a las más bochornosas, como por ejemplo que los funerales a veces son divertidos o que es emocionant…"-Lucia Berlin, Evening in Paradise: More Stories
"Besides the lonely people and the ones who thought we were darling, there were some … two that day … who really felt it was an omen to open the door and be offered a chance, a choice. They took up th…"-Lucia Berlin, Evening in Paradise: More Stories
18. You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here
By: Frances Macken
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'This atmospheric debut looks like a rural Irish coming-of-age novel, but it’s cleverer, darker, mo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
19. Home Remedies
By: Xuan Juliana Wang
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In twelve stunning stories of love, family, and identity, Xuan Juliana Wang’s debut collection capt… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- asia
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
- adult
"Everything memorable is irrational."-Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies
"I lectured that the family home was a deposit box of emotions, and that reading other people's diaries was just another opportunity to encounter yourself."-Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies
"Instead of adding forms where nothing existed, I would recollect the fragments I'd left behind. If I left something in every city I've ever lived, with every person I've ever loved, at every building…"-Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies
"Theirs was a Chinese love. It was not about making each other happy. It was about sacrifice. It was a love devoted to suffering for the beloved. They were supposed to sacrifice over and over again fo…"-Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies
20. Graveyard Shift
By: M.L. Rio
3.49
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
21. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
