About Leave the World Behind
Kirkus Reviews : Leave the World Behind (October 06, 2020)Addressing race, risk, retreat, and the ripple effects of a national emergency, Alam's novel is just in time for this moment.
$ 14.99About Leave the World Behind
The New York Times : What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? (October 06, 2020)Alam’s two previous novels, “Rich and Pretty” and “That Kind of Mother,” have proved he’s gifted with an acidic wit, one he uses to break down contemporary life at the cellular level.
$ 14.99About The New Wilderness
Kirkus Reviews : The New Wilderness (July 31, 2020)This ecological horror story (particularly horrifying now) explores painful regions of the human heart.
$ 14.99About Empire of Wild
NPR : 'Empire Of Wild' Tells A Small Story — But Not A Slight One (July 29, 2020)It is tight, stark, visceral, beautiful — rich where richness is warranted, but spare where want and sorrow have sharpened every word.
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Publishers Weekly : True Love (July 09, 2020)Gerard’s unflinching look at youthful desperation marks an exciting turn in her work.
$ 13.99About You Again
Kirkus Reviews : You Again (July 09, 2020)At once a mind-bending puzzle and a profound meditation on love, fate, ambition, and regret.
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Kirkus Reviews : Thin Girls (June 30, 2020)Incisive social commentary rendered in artful, original, and powerfully affecting prose.
$ 13.99About Catherine House
Booklist : Catherine House (June 19, 2020)At times terrifying, always gorgeously captivating, Thomas’ debut is one not to be missed, and perhaps to be revisited frequently.
$ 12.99About Catherine House
Publishers Weekly : Catherine House (June 19, 2020)Surreal imagery, spare characterization, and artful, hypnotic prose lend Thomas’s tale a delirious air, but at the book’s core lies a profound portrait of depression and adolescent turmoil.
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The Guardian : Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah review – surrealism in Seoul (March 18, 2020)To read this novel of shrouded pilgrimages is also to arrive at a meaning that is “bewitching, and utterly private, a secret for me, a single ship, a single concealed place”.
$ 18.65About The Gimmicks
Washington Independent Review of Books : The Gimmicks: A Novel (January 28, 2020)The Gimmicks impressively characterizes the enduring nature of Armenian contradictions in which “everything you’ve heard is true, everything you’ve heard is false.”
$ 11.99About A Beautiful Crime
Bookreporter : A Beautiful Crime (February 01, 2020)The setting is marvelous. Venice isn’t just a scenic background for the action of A Beautiful Crime. Its capricious tides and twisty, deceptive geography seem to mirror the characters’ secrets and intrigues.
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NPR : 'The Gimmicks' Has Heart, But A Few Too Many Gimmicks (January 09, 2020)The result is engrossing, but McCormick doesn't quite get the ratio right. Fewer gimmicks, ultimately, would have served The Gimmicks well.
$ 11.99About Little Gods
Publishers Weekly : Little Gods (January 14, 2020)This is a beautiful, intensely moving debut.
$ 14.99About Africaville
Publishers Weekly : Africaville (December 10, 2019)This is a penetrating, fresh look at the indomitable spirit of black pioneers and their descendants.
$ 13.99About Nothing to See Here
NPR : Kevin Wilson Is On Fire In 'Nothing To See Here' (November 02, 2019)It's the sweetness of this novel that will melt you, even when it ventures dangerously close to flaming schmaltz, and despite its somewhat predictable (but still satisfying) ending.
$ 12.99About The Divers' Game
NPR : 'The Divers' Game' Depicts An Unimaginably Unjust, All Too Believably Cruel World (September 15, 2019)If dystopian stories serve as thought experiments, the best ones also function as heart experiments. And with The Divers' Game, Jesse Ball has unsettlingly accomplished both.
$ 12.99About Triangulum
Tor.com : Subliminal Visions and Secret Manuscripts: Masande Ntshanga’s Triangulum (May 17, 2019)Magnificently disorienting and meticulously constructed, Triangulum couples an urgent subtext with an unceasing sense of mystery. This is a thought-provoking dream of a novel, situated within thought-provoking contexts both fictional and historical.
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