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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan

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From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy anddark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or who ...Show more

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Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

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Category: Literary Fiction

Gifty is the younger child in a family of four who have emigrated from Ghana to the American South. While her gorgeous brother is a sports hero, her father longs to return home and her mother is desperate to hold this family of four together. When Gifty's brother's glorious success on the basketball co ...Show more

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Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Category: New International Fiction

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense While on her daily walk with her dog in the nearby woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It ...Show more

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Fragile Monsters by Catherine Menon

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Category: New International Fiction

On a visit to her childhood home in rural Malaysia, Durga faces a reckoning. Stuck with her sharp-tongued grandmother in the rising heat, both women must untangle the truth from the myth of their family's past. What happened to Durga's mother after she gave birth? Why did so many of their family members ...Show more

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The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

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Category: New International Fiction

They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his head on her welcome mat. The Death of Vivek Oji transports us to the day of Vivek's birth, the day his ...Show more

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Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

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Category: Contemporary Fiction

32-year-old Nina Dean is a successful food writer with a loyal online following, but a life that is falling apart. When she uses dating apps for the first time, she becomes a victim of ghosting, and by the most beguiling of men. Her beloved dad is vanishing in slow motion into dementia, and she's starti ...Show more

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The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

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Category: New International Fiction

A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more

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Unquiet by Linn Ullman ( Ullmann )

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Category: Gender Studies

'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSK He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and once loved. Each summer of her childho ...Show more

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

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Category: Contemporary Fiction

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Te ...Show more

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D (A Tale of Two Worlds): A modern-day Dickensian fable by Michel Faber

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Category: Fiction

'Glorious. A story that will be found and enjoyed and dreamed about for years to come. I loved it' NEIL GAIMAN. A contemporary Dickensian fable about moral courage and self-determination by the acclaimed author of The Crimson Petal and the White. 12-year-old Dhikilo was born in a faraway country, though ...Show more

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The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams

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Category: Contemporary Fiction

mountweazel n. a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. It is the final year of the nineteenth century and Peter Winceworth has reached the letter 'S', toiling away for the much-anticipated and multi-volume Swans ...Show more

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Trio by William Boyd

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Category: Contemporary Fiction

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the film is shot, wit ...Show more

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