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by Moses McKenzie
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by Madeline Miller
Published Apr 2020
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2018 BookBrowse Fiction Award
The daring, dazzling and highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Song of Achilles.
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by Daniel Alarcon
Published Oct 2018
Read ReviewsA slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles.
by Kathleen Rooney
Published Apr 2018
Read ReviewsA love letter to city life, however shiny or sleazy, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop.
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
Published Jul 2016
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by Richard Wagamese
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsWritten in luminous prose and infused by an uncommonly rich sense of place, Medicine Walk is a stunning achievement.
by Zia Haider Rahman
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsA bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century.
by Chloe Aridjis
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsAsunder is a rich, resonant novel of beguiling depths and beautiful strangeness, exploring the delicate balance between creation and destruction, control and surrender.
by Roshi Fernando
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsA stunning debut novel about an extended Sri Lankan family - a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary immigrant life, by turns darkly funny, sad, poignant, and uproariously beautiful.
by Monica Ali
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsThis gorgeous first novel is the deeply moving story of one woman, Nazneen, born in a Bangladeshi village and transported to London at age eighteen to enter into an arranged marriage.
by John Lanchester
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsThe story of one day in the life of a decent man who only forty-eight hours before knew exactly who and what he was and who on this day wonders who and what he can become.
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