Tag Archives: Family Life
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
by Rabih Alameddine“Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination.”—NPR From National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic…
Crown
by Evanthia BromileyA suspenseful, lyrical debut novel tracking three days leading up to the eviction of a pregnant single mother and her nine-year-old twins from a…
The Son of Man
by Jean-Baptiste Del AmoFrom the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia (Sunday Times), winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Best Translated…
Blue Light Hours
by Bruna Dantas Lobato“Astonishingly beautiful . . . It’s a revelation.”—Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Weather From the National Book Award-winning translator, an atmospheric and wise debut…
City of Laughter
by Temim FruchterA rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a…
Brother Alive
by Zain KhalidFrom the winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, an astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following three adopted brothers who live above a mosque in Staten Island with their imam…
Ocean State
by Stewart O'NanSet in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine EvaristoWinner of the 2019 Booker Prize A National Bestseller From one of Britain’s most celebrated writers of color, a magnificent portrayal of the intersections…
The Story of a Goat
by Perumal MuruganFrom one of India’s best-known writers and the author of the National Book Award-longlisted One Part Woman comes a charming and surprising tale of…
Animalia
by Jean-Baptiste Del AmoA prizewinning and word-of-mouth literary sensation in France, Animalia is an extraordinary epic that retraces the history of a modest French peasant family over…
