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Linghun
Dark Matter Ink

Linghun

Ai Jiang, Yi Izzy Yu

Ai Jiang sets this Gothic novella in HOME, a town where the dead return as spirits and grief has become part of the social fabric. With its bonus essays and short pieces, the book leaves a strong impression of loss lingering inside a community.

Self-Portrait as Othello
Carcanet Poetry

Self-Portrait as Othello

Jason Allen-Paisant

Through the figure of Othello, this collection layers migration, Black identity, the body, and theatrical self-portraiture. Voices moving across London, Paris, and Venice rise by moving between history and personal experience.

GRIT
Independently published

GRIT

Obari Gomba

The play follows a family trapped in a political struggle that drives its members toward choices that wound one another. Through tense dialogue, it shows how political violence seeps into the home.

All My Rage: A Novel
Razorbill

All My Rage: A Novel

Sabaa Tahir

Set against a motel run by a Pakistani immigrant family, this coming-of-age novel traces fractured friendship, family burdens, and the movement from rage toward forgiveness. It follows young people carrying old wounds as they try to face what was broken and keep moving forward.