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I Love You Don’t Die

I Love You Don’t Die

Acclaimed author Jade Song (Chlorine) returns with her latest literary exploration: a lyrical, poignant, and heartfelt novel about the meaning of love, friendship, debt, depression, and death in New York...

Superfan

Superfan

A novel about a pop idol and his superfan, whose stories shockingly collide. Freshman Minnie is adrift at college in Austin, Texas, when she discovers a boy band called HOURglass...

Last Night in Brooklyn

Last Night in Brooklyn

A young woman whose life becomes ensnared in her glamorous neighbor’s secret past. SPRING, 2007 At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She’s in a long-distance relationship,...

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together....

The Wilderness

The Wilderness

An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the...

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

A tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother. In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja...

Lonely Crowds

Lonely Crowds

A riveting debut novel about a volatile friendship between two outsiders who escape their bleak childhoods and enter the glamorous early ’90s art world in New York City, where only...

Flashlight

Flashlight

One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked...

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity. When Sonia and...

Silver and Smoke

Silver and Smoke

It’s the golden age of Hollywood. For two Vietnamese dreamers, success means conjuring a magical break in a spellbinding novel about the frightening price of fame by Van Hoang. More...

Swift River

Swift River

A sweeping family saga about the complicated bond between mothers and daughters, the disappearance of a father, and the long-hidden history of a declining New England mill town. It’s the...

Rejection

Rejection

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel,” New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as...

Mina’s Matchbox

Mina’s Matchbox

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them....

Catalina

Catalina

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future,...

Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

Told with deadpan humor and brutal honesty, this debut novel follows Vietnamese American Linh Ly’s unraveling as she reckons with the traumas of both her past and present, perfect for...

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious...

Sea Change

Sea Change

“Immersively beautiful…. A kaleidoscope of originality.” —Weike Wang, acclaimed author of Joan is Okay Ro is stuck. She’s just entered her thirties, she’s estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend...

Circa: A Novel

Circa: A Novel

A stunning, gut-punch of a novel that follows a young Indian American woman who, in the wake of tragedy, must navigate her family’s expectations as she grapples with a complicated...

When We Were Sisters

When We Were Sisters

In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, the acclaimed author of If They Come for Us traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die,...

Brown Girls

Brown Girls

Welcome to Queens, New York, where streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple over sidewalks, and the funky scent...

Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun

Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who,...

The Vanishing Half

The Vanishing Half

From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one...

Love in the Big City

Love in the Big City

A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young...

Yellow Wife

Yellow Wife

Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story by Sadeqa Johnson follows an...

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