Sandstone Press
Celestial Bodies
Jokha Alharthi
An Omani family novel that traces women, marriage, and social change across generations.
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Viking
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai
A novel moving between 1980s Chicago and present-day Paris, depicting the losses, friendships, and family ruptures left by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The memory of crisis continues to shape the present.
Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co.
Widerfahrnis
Bodo Kirchhoff
A novel of chance encounter and a brief journey that explores love, loneliness, and the possibility of approaching another person.
Dover Publications
Clearing Weather
Cornelia Meigs
Young Nicholas Drury has his hands full between looking after his ailing uncle and tending to the family business, a Massachusetts shipyard. Since the recent end of the Revolutionary War, shipbuilding is in decline and everyone in the town of Brascombe is feeling the economic pinch. Just as Nicholas is on the verge of giving up and declaring bankruptcy, he notices footprints in his backyard that lead him to new friends, a dangerous secret, and a plan to restore the community's fortunes. This Newbery Honor–winning novel for young readers recaptures the nation's anxious mood in the years that followed its newly won independence. The tale of an entire town pulling together and pitching in to build a great trading ship echoes the spirit of the American Revolution, and its account of the vessel's two-year adventure to the Caribbean and China reflects the young country's growing engagement with the wider world. Numerous atmospheric black-and-white illustrations add to the story's historical flavor.
Faber & Faber
Dear Boy (Faber Poetry)
Emily Berry
Intimacy, self-staging, anxious affection, and rising desire appear in quick succession across these poems. Candor and irony coexist, and the short pieces cut sharply into emotional instability.
Penguin Books Ltd
The Beautiful Summer (Penguin European Writers)
Cesare Pavese, Elizabeth Strout
A set of closely linked short pieces set against summer landscapes, tracing youthful feeling and loss. Small everyday scenes connect to inner life, and loneliness, desire, and the anxiety of growing up are rendered with lyrical restraint.
Knopf
There There: A novel
Tommy Orange
A multivoiced novel about urban Native people in Oakland. Family rupture, addiction, historical trauma, and the search for reconnection converge as the characters move toward a large community gathering.
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life
Gunnhild Øyehaug, Kari Dickson
A Norwegian novel in which the stories of Sigrid, a literature student, Linnea, an aspiring film director, Trine, a performance artist, and others intersect around art and desire. Coincidence, quotation, and fantasy accumulate as the characters long to belong to someone or something while learning to live with their own unstable oddness.
Great Northern Books Ltd
The Good Companions (J.B. Priestley Classic Re-Issues)
J. B. Priestley
A group novel about the people gathered around a touring theatrical troupe, growing as they influence one another. With humor and warmth, it portrays friendship, dreams, and what success can mean.
Univ of Washington Pr
John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author Of No-No Boy
Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, Floyd Cheung
No-No Boy , John Okadas only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976 to become a celebrated classic of American literature. As a result of Okadas untimely death at age forty-seven, the authors life and other works have remained obscure. This compelling collection offers the first full-length examination of Okadas development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his lasting legacy. Meticulously researched biographical details, insight from friends and relatives, and a trove of intimate photographs illuminate Okadas early life in Seattle, military service, and careers as a public librarian and a technical writer in the aerospace industry. This volume is an essential companion to No-No Boy .
白水社
マンゴー通り、ときどきさよなら (白水Uブックス)
サンドラ・シスネロス, くぼた のぞみ
A linked novel in which the Latina girl Esperanza searches for a place of her own amid the pressures of poverty, gender, and class. Its short vignettes vividly convey the pain and hope of growing up.
Trieste Publishing
England to America
Margaret Prescott Montague
Set in Devonshire during the First World War, the story follows the American lieutenant Cary Skipworth as he visits the family of a British friend. As he wrestles with the social distance and unspoken rules of the house, he comes to understand the reason for their silence and the deep care hidden inside it.