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Négar Djavadi, Tina Kover
In the waiting room of a Paris fertility clinic, Kimiâ Sadr is overtaken by the history of the family that fled Iran for France. The novel layers political revolution, family myth, immigrant dislocation, and sexual identity in a polyphonic and exuberant narrative.
Phoebe Power
Shrines of Upper Austria follows a traveller through central Europe, layering lakes, folk culture, postwar memory, immigrants, and children's voices. Personal history and the history of place echo in fragments, placing shrines and unsettling discoveries within the same landscape.
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
This story collection portrays Black middle-class life in schools, workplaces, families, and online spaces with satire and unease. It examines self-representation, racial stereotypes, and communal expectation through characters whose pain and humor often sit side by side.
Sophie Blackall
A picture book about a lighthouse and the last keeper who tends it through changing seasons. The book uses spare words and delicate illustrations to convey the light in a lonely place and the quiet dignity of caretaking.
Carolyn Mackler
Virginia Shreves is a high school student who feels intensely self-conscious about her body and has to face family pressure, awkward romance, and the fracture her brother's troubles create at home. Moving between humor and pain, the novel traces a teenager's slow work toward accepting both her appearance and her feelings.
Tracy K. Smith
A poetry collection that links the present in the United States with the history of slavery by layering fragments of verse, documentary material, and personal voice. It places contemporary unease within a long continuum of language and history.
Louise DeSalvo
Through a set of frank essays, the author revisits family history, Italian American identity, violence, loss, and the hesitation to write about painful truths. The book uses personal memory to ask what it means to live as a woman and a writer.
Rabai Al-madhoun, Paul Starkey
A novel that juxtaposes the Holocaust and the Nakba to ask about memory, trauma, and the possibility of reconciliation. It moves across multiple perspectives and revisits history from within.
Dunya Mikhail, Max Weiss
A work of nonfiction centered on the testimonies of Yazidi women abducted, abused, and enslaved by ISIS, and on the beekeeper who built a dangerous network to rescue them. The author, a poet and journalist, links the record of violence with survivors' voices and the actions of ordinary people who risked themselves to help.
Tatyana Tolstaya
A story collection where Russian reality, memory, reverie, and fantasy cross into one another. Dreams of a dead father, fantasies in an American town, a disintegrating marriage, and a child's religious vision turn everyday details into entrances to other worlds through humor and lyricism.
Paolo Cognetti
A semi-autobiographical novel that follows friendship from childhood through the mountains, reflecting on growth, belonging, and father-son ties. It traces the passing of time and the depth of human relationships against a landscape that is both harsh and beautiful.
James Ijames
A play about an artist who hires a woman to perform a persona, exposing distortions in representation and power.