Small Plates: Short Fiction
Katherine Hall Page
A short mystery story collected in Small Plates, centered on a husband who wants to be rid of his wife.
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Katherine Hall Page
A short mystery story collected in Small Plates, centered on a husband who wants to be rid of his wife.
Jaime Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez’s graphic novel brings family, memory, and reunion back into focus.
Ellen Datlow, Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Siobhan Carroll, Terry Dowling, Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Jeffrey Ford, Carole Johnstone, Stephen Graham Jones, Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Langan, Catherine MacLeod, Helen Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Garth Nix, Robert Shearman, Michael Marshall Smith, Kaaron Warren
An anthology of contemporary horror and dark fantasy assembled by Ellen Datlow, bringing together many voices that range from curses and folklore to uncanny dread and strange beauty.
Valeria Luiselli, Christina MacSweeney
Valeria Luiselli’s novel layers voices and timelines around Mexico City, memory, and identity.
André Alexis
A novel set in a small Canadian town that weaves together faith, miracles, desire, and philosophical inquiry.
Mohamed Achari, Aida Bamia, Erica Jarnes
Winner of the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction - The Arab Booker 2011. As he prepares to leave for work one morning, Youssef al-Firsiwi finds a mysterious letter under his door. In a single devastating line he learns that his only son, Yacine, whom he believed to be studying engineering in Paris, has been killed in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance. Yousif, the son of a cross-cultural marriage between his Moroccan father and German-born mother, is quickly caught up in a mesh of family tragedies that reflect the changing world he lives in. He turns for support to his friends Ahmad and Ibrahim, themselves enmeshed in ever more complex business and criminal dealings, and he struggles to reconnect with his father. With his world already shattered, and finding himself abandoned by his wife for another man, Yousif begins to question everything including his own values and identity.
Anthony Doerr
A World War II novel in which the lives of a blind French girl and a German boy cross in occupied France.
Jane Munro
A poetry collection that looks at aging and loss through dreamscapes, prayer, and recollection. Its intimate voice carries both humor and quiet ache.
Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson looks back on a childhood shaped by poverty and family upheaval. Centering on his mother and sister, the memoir brings postwar working-class London vividly to life.
Alexis De Veaux
Alexis De Veaux's Yabo is an inventive novella centered on Black lesbian experience. Desire, memory, and spirituality intersect in a layered narrative that lets voices crossing boundaries come forward.
Eimear McBride
An experimental novel that traces family violence, loss, and the turbulence of adolescence in a fragmented, poetic style. It moves deep inside a girl’s consciousness while letting pain and lyricism surface together.
Dan Santat
Winner of the Caldecott Medal #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning creator Dan Santat combines classic storytelling with breathtaking art in an unforgettable tale about friendship, imagination, and the courage to find one's place in the world . This magical story begins on an island far away where an imaginary friend is born. He patiently waits his turn to be chosen by a real child, but when he is overlooked time and again, he sets off on an incredible journey to the bustling city, where he finally meets his perfect match and--at long last--is given his special name: Beekle. From the creator of many beloved books including After the Fall and Are We There Yet? comes a gently humorous, utterly endearing and deeply thoughtful celebration of friends.