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The Taiga Syndrome
Dorothy, a publishing project

The Taiga Syndrome

Cristina Rivera Garza, Suzanne Jill Levine, Aviva Kana

Set in a snowbound forest, the journey of an ex-detective searching for a missing couple exposes the distortions of language and the violence of capitalism. It is a short but dense novella where fairy tale and detective fiction intersect.

The Order of the Day
Other Press

The Order of the Day

Eric Vuillard, Mark Polizzotti

A short-chapter novel that fragments the rise of Nazism into scenes of political and financial complacency. It sharply exposes power, responsibility, and the machinery behind history.

Washington Black: A novel
Knopf

Washington Black: A novel

Esi Edugyan

Washington Black, a boy raised enslaved on a Barbados sugar plantation, is drawn into a wider world through his master’s brother and begins a journey of escape and self-discovery. The novel folds the violence of slavery into a story of formation and survival.

Bellevue Square
Anchor Canada

Bellevue Square

Michael Redhill

A psychological novel in which a writer investigates a mysterious man who resembles him, confronting memory, guilt, and family secrets along the way. Its metafictional design deepens the instability of identity.

Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, 1)
Orbit

Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, 1)

Tade Thompson

A science-fiction novel set in the Nigerian city of Rosewater and the mysterious biodome that has appeared there. A government agent becomes entangled in events involving memory, psychic ability, and an unknown presence.

Three Poems
Faber & Faber

Three Poems

Hannah Sullivan

In three long poems about New York, California, birth, and loss, the book reworks urban life and time for the present.

When I Grow Rich: A Nuri Bey Mystery
Dover Publications

When I Grow Rich: A Nuri Bey Mystery

Joan Fleming

Set in Istanbul, this mystery turns a chance sighting and a simple handoff into a much larger incident. Centered on Nuri Bey, it builds a chain of unpredictable clues while drawing strength from its sense of place and cultural texture.

Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Candlewick

Merci Suárez Changes Gears

Meg Medina

Merci Suárez Changes Gears is a middle-grade novel about Merci, a Cuban American sixth grader at a private school in Florida. With humor and warmth, it portrays jealousy and belonging at school alongside family life as her grandfather begins to change.

Le lettere da Capri
Bompiani

Le lettere da Capri

Mario Soldati

Moving between postwar Italy, Rome, and Capri, the story intertwines desire, jealousy, and self-deception. Built around letters and confessions, it sharply traces emotional distortion and social masks.