I Am My Country: And Other Stories
By: Kenan Orhan
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A fiercely imaginative debut story collection by “a startling talent who can seemingly do anything”…
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1. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
2. Dearborn
By: Ghassan Zeineddine
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
3. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- asia
- adult
- fiction
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
4. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
5. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
6. The Wrong End of the Telescope
By: Rabih Alameddine
4.04
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
By National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woma… read more
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- fiction
"Writing one’s story narcotizes it. Literature today is an opiate."-Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope
"You still cling to romantic notions about writing, that you’ll be able to figure things out, that you will understand life, as if life is understandable, as if art is understandable. When has writing…"-Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope
7. Green Frog: Stories
By: Gina Chung
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more
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- magical realism
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
8. The Sorrows of Others
By: Ada Zhang
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others i… read more
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- asia
- short stories
- anthologies
- fiction
9. The Stone Home
By: Crystal Hana Kim
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean… read more
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- asia
- adult
- fiction
10. The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories
By: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
4.36
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"Propulsive and complex, this is a gorgeously written debut." —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) In T… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
11. 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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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
12. That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
By: Huda Fahmy
4.21
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen … read more
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- adult
"Her cat hotel did very well. LOL"-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
"Her daughter got married in pants. Lol"-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
"I find you. . . r citizenship very attractive. Lol"-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
"Yeah, I've been there. It had a funky smell and reminded me of a graveyard."-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
13. Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Stories
By: Mai Nardone
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, and gated estates of late-twentieth century Bangk… read more
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- asia
- short stories
- adult
- fiction
14. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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- fiction
15. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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- adult
- fiction
16. Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go
By: Cleo Qian
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alien… read more
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- short stories
- magical realism
- fiction
- adult
17. I Am My Country: And Other Stories
By: Kenan Orhan
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A fiercely imaginative debut story collection by “a startling talent who can seemingly do anything”… read more
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- magical realism
- asia
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
18. The Truth According to Ember
By: Danica Nava
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much mor… read more
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- adult
- fiction
19. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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- adult
- fiction
20. There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
By: Ruben Reyes Jr.
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, an… read more
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- magical realism
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
21. Mama Said: Stories
By: Kristen Gentry
4.30
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
“A celebration of Black family life that will make you laugh and cry in equal measure.” — Kirkus Re… read more
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