American Estrangement: Stories
By: Said Sayrafiezadeh
3.73
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2. Such Small Hands
By: Edmund White , Andrés Barba , Lisa Dillman
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that ca… read more
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3. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
By: Asha Bandele , Patrisse Khan-Cullors
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the moveme… read more
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4. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
By: Lesley Nneka Arimah
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
In Who Will Greet You at Homea woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling … read more
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5. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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6. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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7. Traplines
By: Eden Robinson
3.73
Format: 112 pages,
The menacing underside of family life is the subject of Eden Robinson's debut collection. In crackl… read more
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8. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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9. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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10. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
11. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
12. Tomb Sweeping
By: Alexandra Chang
3.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and genera… read more
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13. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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14. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
By: Nisi Shawl
3.85
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers o… read more
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"The grand philosopher Ancient Leaf once expounded that a man who kills another out of passion or greed is condemned as a murderer, and one who kills ten people is reviled as a maniac, but one who cau…"-Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
15. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- the united states of america
16. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
By: Lauren Markham
4.08
Format: 263 pages, ebook
A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more
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17. Telephone
By: Percival Everett
3.98
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow ar… read more
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18. Scatterlings
By: Rešoketšwe Manenzhe
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This journey, someone will get lost, someone will give up and turn back, and someone may go all … read more
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19. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between mod… read more
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"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
20. Say Hello to My Little Friend
By: Jennine Capó Crucet
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to … read more
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21. God's Country
By: Percival Everett
4.08
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
This ‘comic and fierce’ novel spoofs the classic Western format with the dark, incisive humor we’ve… read more
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22. This Is Salvaged
By: Vauhini Vara
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more
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23. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
24. Blank Pages: And Other Stories
By: Bernard MacLaverty
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland’s most celebrated writer… read more
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25. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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26. You Never Get It Back (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
By: Cara Blue Adams
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructe… read more
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27. American Estrangement: Stories
By: Said Sayrafiezadeh
3.73
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from de… read more
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28. A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
By: Ali Smith
3.36
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired … read more
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29. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable
By: Sarah Gerard
3.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more
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30. Homesick: Stories
By: Nino Cipri
4.08
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme o… read more
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31. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
