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  • After the Winter
    After the Winter
    Nettel, Guadalupe
    Praise for Guadalupe Nettel:"Nettel offers her keen attention and sympathy to any living thing struggling to get by." --The New York Times"Nettel has brilliantly found a form to contain the multitudes of what one body can hold." --Nick Flynn"The gaze [Nettel] turns on madnesses both temperate and destructive, on manias, on deviances, is so sharp that it has us seeing straight i...

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  • Romance of Happy Workers, The
    Romance of Happy Workers, The
    Boyer, Anne
    The Romance of Happy Workers swaggers through a world of cowboys, conquistadors, comrades, and housewives with mock-Russian lyric sequences and Keatsian swoon. Political and iconoclastic, Anne Boyer’s poems dally in pastoral camp and a dizzying, delightful array of sights and sounds born from the dust of the Kansas plains where dinner for two is cooked in Fire King and served o...

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  • Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
    Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
    Luiselli, Valeria
    Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis - and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency." - Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books>"Valeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work translating for child immigrants confronts with compassion and honesty the problem of the North American refugee crisis. It's a...

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  • Story of My Teeth
    Story of My Teeth
    Luiselli, Valeria
    Valeria Luiselli's Faces in the Crowd won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum First Fiction Award and was a National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 and Indies Next Pick.I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my oth...

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  • Book of Anna, The
    Book of Anna, The
    Boullosa, Carmen
    Saint Petersburg, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the vivid portrait that the tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts Anna wrote just before her death, which open a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairy tale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchi...

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  • Jawbone
    Jawbone
    Ojeda, Mónica
    "Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?"Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after schoo...

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  • Ramifications
    Ramifications
    Saldaña Paris, Daniel
    Folding and refolding origami frogs, extracting the symmetrical veins from leaves, retreating to an imaginary world in his closet: after Teresa walked out the door one July afternoon in 1994, her son filled the void she left with a series of unusual rituals. Twenty-three years later, he lies in bed, reconstructing the events surrounding his mother's disappearance. Did she actua...

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  • When Women Kill
    When Women Kill
    Trabucco Zeran, Alia
    A genre-bending feminist account of the lives and crimes of four women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender.When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán o...

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  • Ornamental
    Ornamental
    Cardenas, Juan

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  • Nefando
    Nefando
    Ojeda, Mónica
    A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda.Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki Ortega, a researcher writing a pornographic novel; Iván Herrera, a writer whose prose reveals a deeply conflicted relationship with his body; three sib...

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  • Faces in the Crowd
    Faces in the Crowd
    Luiselli, Valeria

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  • Sidewalks
    Sidewalks
    Luiselli, Valeria
    Valeria Luiselli is an evening cyclist; a literary tourist in Venice, searching for Joseph Brodsky's tomb; an excavator of her own artifacts, unpacking from a move. In essays that are as companionable as they are ambitious, she uses the city to exercise a roving, meandering intelligence, seeking out the questions embedded in our human landscapes.Valeria Luiselli was born in Mex...

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  • When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
    When Death Takes Something from You Give...
    Aidt, Naja Marie
    In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love.Intensely moving, When Death Takes Something from You...

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  • Remainder, The
    Remainder, The
    Trabucco Zerán, Alia
    Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile's dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela's childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents' violent militant pas...

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  • In the Distance
    In the Distance
    Diaz, Hernan
    A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of hist...

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