Gappah’s fiction overall celebrates the people history ignores.
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Rojas Contreras’s first novel, inspired by personal experiences, is dense in plot and emotion as…
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Worst Kind lavishes in the darkness of Cilla’s memories, experiences and repressed emotions.
Wait, Blink: by Gunnhild Øyehaug
A quirky, linguistic tome that captures the flourishing, convoluted ouroboros of human imagination.
Severance: by Ling Ma
Severance posits that society can’t move forward if it’s stuck on how things used to…
Number One Chinese Restaurant: by Lillian Li
Number One Chinese Restaurant stumbles over some of its elements, but Li as an author…
Social Creature: by Tara Isabella Burton
A glitzy, frenetic look at New York’s social elite and the toxic friendship that throttles…
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: by Ocean Vuong
Vuong’s novel exemplifies the power in overcoming adversity, charting paths and being seen even when…
The Friend: by Sigrid Nunez
The Friend is more of a one-sided conversation via stream of consciousness rather than a…
Same Same: by Peter Mendelsund
Same Same is like a Google search before applying keywords and filters—information overload without a…
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