Fiction
THREE OF US
Written by Agbaje-Williams, Ore
Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, told brilliantly over the course of one day. What if the two most important people in your life hated each other with a passion? The wife has it all.
RETROSPECTIVE
Written by Vasquez, Juan Gabriel
An epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions. The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work.
WHAT NAPOLEON COULD NOT DO
Written by Nnuro, Dk
America is seen through the eyes and ambitions of three characters with ties to Africa in this gripping novel When siblings Jacob and Belinda Nti were growing up in Ghana, their goal was simple: to move to America. For them, the United States was both an opportunity and a struggle, a goal and an obstacle.
GREAT RECLAMATION
Written by Heng, Rachel
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 BY OPRAH DAILY, BUSTLE, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of Britis
ADA'S ROOM
Written by Otoo, Sharon Dodua
A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver.
GONE LIKE YESTERDAY
Written by Williams, Janelle M
A lyrical debut novel that asks what we owe to our families, what we owe to our ancestors, and what we owe to ourselves. Janelle M. Williams's Gone Like Yesterday employs magical realism to explore the majestic and haunting experience of being a Black woman in today's America.
NATURAL BEAUTY
Written by Huang, Ling Ling
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.
WHEN IN ROME
Written by Callanan, Liam
From nationally bestselling, award-winning author Liam Callanan, the story of an opportunity to start over at midlife, a chance to save a struggling convent in the Eternal City, and the dramatic re-emergence of an old flame . . . Meet Claire: fifty-two, desperate to do something new and get a fresh start.
SHADOW OF PERSEUS
Written by Heywood, Claire
Nationally bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version--his mother, Danae; his trophy, Medusa; and his wife, Andromeda--but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all.
PINEAPPLE STREET
Written by Jackson, Jenny
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, Elle, Southern Living, Bustle, and more
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