On a Woman's Madness
Astrid Roemer, Lucy Scott
A fragmentary novel about Noenka, a Black woman who leaves home after her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and begins a new life shadowed by colonial history, desire, and isolation.
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Astrid Roemer, Lucy Scott
A fragmentary novel about Noenka, a Black woman who leaves home after her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and begins a new life shadowed by colonial history, desire, and isolation.
Colin Winnette
A near-future novel in which startup culture, virtual reality, and family life begin to collapse into one another.
Lorenza Mazzetti
Readers tend to see Lorenza Mazzetti's novel as an autobiographical work that follows wartime family life through a child's point of view. Its playful narration leaves a strong impression because prejudice and violence enter that world gradually and without warning.
N・K・ジェミシン, 小野田和子
The concluding volume of the Broken Earth trilogy. Essun seeks to bring back the Moon and save the world, while her daughter Nassun is drawn toward ending a world she sees as beyond repair. The choices of mother and daughter determine both the history of oppression and the future of civilization.
Homero Aridjis, George McWhirter
This selected volume moves between dream and reality, private memory and social scars, transforming Mexican landscapes and political tension into poetry. Mythic animals, family ghosts, and the atmosphere of the city overlap, and an aging poet's gaze gives the book its quiet force.
Martin MacInnes
Marine biologist Leigh is drawn from a mysterious deep-sea anomaly into research that links ocean science to the far reaches of space. The novel combines family strain with a vast philosophical inquiry into origins, belonging, and humanity's place in the cosmos.
Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell
Tomb of Sand is a multivoiced novel centered on an elderly woman who begins a new life after her husband's death. It explores family history, Partition memory, and movement across borders with humor and formal experimentation.
John Northmore Roberts
The intense social and environmental fervor that arose in the 1960s and 1970s in response to assaults on the planet's life support systems, degradation of communities, and socio-economic inequality unleashed revolutionary change at all levels of society. Out of the turmoil of that era, community-based ecological design emerged as a powerful creative force for reshaping the commons, bringing people together, and forming ecologically sustainable relationships with the environment.
K. B. Jackson
Jake, a boy obsessed with finding Sasquatch, adjusts to a new school and a changing family life while building a small team of young hunters. Beneath the Bigfoot fun lies a story about belonging, friendship, and family change.
K. B. Jackson, Lorenzo Conti
Jake and his friends head to Harriman Lake for a weekend that mixes treasure hunting, Sasquatch legends, and family reunions. The adventure story runs alongside a deeper arc about friendship, trust, and emotional growth.
Niccolo Ammaniti
A woman whose life appears perfect is forced to confront a secret from her past after a single video upends everything. Psychological realism and unruly imagination collide in tense, unsettling ways.
Tom Crewe
It is praised as a dense political novel that balances historical precision with sensual intensity. Readers value the recreation of period language and the confidence of the character work, while some find the density demanding.