The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
Francisco Cantú
A nonfiction book that uses experience in the Border Patrol to examine violence and ethics on both sides of the border.
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Francisco Cantú
A nonfiction book that uses experience in the Border Patrol to examine violence and ethics on both sides of the border.
Jerry Craft
Jordan, a Black boy starting at a private school, navigates microaggressions, pressure to fit in, and the search for belonging in a graphic novel that mixes humor with sharp social observation.
EMILY BERNARD
A collection of essays that explores race, family, and embodied experience through Emily Bernard's perspective as a Black woman.
Harpman-J
A novel that develops variations on identity and desire through an imaginative, hallucinatory narrative.
Neil M. Gunn
This novel follows Kenn, who grows up beside a Highland river and moves between childhood memory and the experience of the First World War as he tries to recover inner calm. A vivid sense of landscape links the layers of time, bringing together the wounds of war and the possibility of renewal.
Anthony McGowan, Nick Hayes
Brothers Nicky and Kenny face survival challenges on the North Yorkshire Moors.
Fiona Benson
A poetry collection that uses Greek mythology and classical references to examine sexual violence, trauma, and the female body. It weaves personal experience with mythic motifs to illuminate contemporary issues.
周大新
Set in villages around the Danjiangkou Reservoir, the novel traces the changing era through the life of Nuannuan. Landscape and human relationships overlap, revealing both the realities and hopes of rural life.
カルメン・ラフォレット, 木村裕美
Andrea arrives in postwar Barcelona and slowly confronts loneliness, violence, friendship, and the question of what kind of life she wants to lead. With a sharp and delicate gaze, the novel captures family oppression and a young woman's awakening in one of postwar Spain's defining works.
エルサ・モランテ, 北代 美和子
Set in Sicily, this novel follows a lonely narrator as she rethreads the memories of the women who precede her - grandmother, mother, and herself - and recounts a family history of secrets, desire, and betrayal through a blend of fact and invention. Its lush storytelling and layered family saga make it one of the defining debut novels of postwar Italian literature.
Scholastique Mukasonga, Jordan Stump
The Barefoot Woman is a memoir that mourns the author’s mother, Stefania, lost in the Rwandan genocide, and reconstructs her life, wisdom, and humor from memory. The family story becomes an act of restoring the dead as individual lives rather than anonymous numbers.
チョ・ナムジュ, 斎藤 真理子
Kim Jiyoung lives with her husband and young daughter on the outskirts of Seoul when she begins speaking in the voices of other women, including her mother and friends. Framed as a psychiatrist's account, the novel follows her from birth through school, work, marriage, and motherhood, revealing the sexism and silences that accumulate inside an ordinary life.