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Mount Verity

by Bella Moses

In Therese Bohman’s coming-of-age novel "Mount Verity", a childhood tragedy alters the trajectory of an artist’s life. On Easter Eve in 1989, Hannah’s older brother Erik disappears during a midnight trip to a mountain with a mythic... Read More

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Who Killed Bambi?

by Rebecca Foster

Monika Fagerholm’s hard-hitting experimental novel is about the aftereffects of gang rape. During a spring break party, Nathan and three other teenage boys restrained their classmate, Sascha, in the basement and raped her. A decade... Read More

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City Like Water

by Mike Good

In Dorothy Tse’s striking, surreal novella "City Like Water", a person navigates a contorted reality in a nameless city. An unnamed narrator experiences displacement, both in memory and space. They recall the top bunk they once slept... Read More

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My Dreadful Body

by Karen Rigby

A woman maps cultural expectations and desires onto her ailing body in Egana Djabbarova’s singular novel My Dreadful Body. Tackling one body part per chapter, this bildungsroman follows Egana, an Azerbaijani daughter, as she learns... Read More

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Nightshade

by Meg Nola

In Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s mesmerizing historical novel "Nightshade", a young woman is grounded and conflicted by her Romani background. In 1980s southern Ontario, Zelda and her family prepare for a season of grueling migrant labor at a... Read More

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The Shipikisha Club

by Meg Nola

A Zambian woman is prosecuted for murder in Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s gripping novel "The Shipikisha Club". After shooting her husband in self-defense, Sali faces the public fervor of a trial. Her teenage daughter and two young sons... Read More

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