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Circumnavigation
Tooth of Time Books

Circumnavigation

Cyn Zarco

A poetry collection that foregrounds verbal play and formal experiment while circling migration and cultural dislocation.

The Heat Bird
Burning Deck Books

The Heat Bird

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

A poetry collection that follows the flow of consciousness through long, breath-driven lines while tracing natural objects and bodily sensation. Its visual imagery unfolds richly.

The Chaneysville Incident
Avon Books

The Chaneysville Incident

David Bradley

A university professor investigates his father’s death and his family’s past, uncovering the memory of slavery and a history of violence embedded in the region. A personal quest becomes entangled with national memory, probing race and inherited trauma.

Across Five Aprils
Berkley

Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt

Set during the Civil War, the novel follows Jethro Creighton as he grows up on an Illinois farm. Against the uncertainty brought by war to his family and community, it traces his gradual move toward adulthood through responsibility, loss, and hard-won resilience.

INSIDE
Schocken

INSIDE

Helene Cixous

Hélène Cixous's debut novel is a semi-autobiographical work that traces memory, loss, and the shifting outline of the self after her father's death. In its fragmented narration, it repeatedly unsettles the boundaries between inside and outside, life and death, language and the body.

Fools Crow
Viking Adult

Fools Crow

James Welch

ネイティブの部族社会と伝統、外部からの圧力を描く長編小説。文化的復権と生存の物語が核。

Early Autumn
Amereon Ltd

Early Autumn

Louis Bromfield

Against the backdrop of a New England family history, this novel explores the burden of tradition, independence, and inheritance. Beneath its restrained surface, it contrasts a life bound by old values with the will to move beyond them.

Hey, Al
Farrar Straus & Giroux

Hey, Al

Arthur Yorinks, Juvenile Collection, Richard Egielski

A city janitor and his dog discover a paradise in the sky, only to learn that home is their true place.

猫の大虐殺
岩波書店

猫の大虐殺

ロバート ダーントン, 海保 真夫, 鷲見 洋一

An essay collection that reads popular culture and power relations through episodes from eighteenth-century France.