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A brilliant story set in 17th-century England about a women's community at the margins of society and the constant dangers of religious fervor. Dark, unsettling, and highly entertaining.
This incredible multi-colored book tells the story and history of 75 shades of colors, hues, and dyes. As you read each page you learn the importance of each color and its effects from politics to pop culture.
This short and compulsive debut novel from Icelandic poet Thora Hjörleifsdóttir, gives you a glimpse into a young woman’s blind passionate relationship that is highly toxic, cruel, with subtle violence. Filled with short chapters, you won’t realize that you are at the end until the final turning on the page.
Esmé Weijun Wang’s collection of essays is a vivid portrait of what it means to be living with mental illness all while navigating the myriad attempts to find a diagnosis. Written in a brave voice that doesn’t shy away from the effect the disease has on the person, as well as the people close to them.
In Marta Orriols debut novel Paula Cid’s long-term boyfriend dies hours later just as he informs her that he is leaving her for another woman. Orriols navagiates grief, betrayal, obsession, and what it takes to rebuild your life when it all falls apart.
Fearless debut novel about a mother-and-daughter relationship with deep resentments, betrayal, and hidden truths of family history which brings them together in unexpected ways. Asking the profound question: will you be there for your mother in her time of need, when they were never there for you growing up?
Book One of the Copenhagen Trilogy memoir is a brave look at Tove Ditlevsen’s childhood in working class Copenhagen where she knows that she is a misfit in her family and her neighborhood. This is where she discovers that she wants to be a poet and a writer. Told with complete honesty and a vivid portrait of girlhood, it is a brave and beautiful memoir.
Youth follows Tove after she is forced to leave school early, and has to embark on a string of unfulfilling low-paying jobs. All Tove wants is her life to start like her older brother’s, to leave home, find love, and most importantly, independence from her parents. The second volume is vulnerable, with small glimpses of humor and shows Copenhagen as it slid into War World II.
The last installment in The Copenhagen Trilogy finds Tove as a famous published poet and married to an older literary editor. All of her years escaping the life that she was born into finds Tove in unwanted pregnancies, failures, and an addiction that will stay with her throughout the rest of her life. This is by far the most honest, raw, and dark account of Tove’s life.
Rebecca Handler’s debut novel follows Edie Ritcher, a woman with a shocking secret whose father just died leaving her family in San Francisco. When her husband relocates his job to Perth, Australia she becomes isolated, carrying a secret that will haunt her in a foreign country that only mirrors her own life. Something has to give in both her marriage and her life.
Anna Qu was sent by her mother as a teen to work in the family’s garment factory in Queens. At home she was treated as a maid, punished for doing her homework, and suffered abuse at her family's hands. Qu does something that most people would only dream of: she alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, and the act and consequences impact the rest of her life. Twenty years later, after an estrangement from her mother, she requests to see the report that changed her life only to find key details wrong. Qu asks uncomfortable questions about trauma, the meaning of work, and survival in immigrant families.
Melissa Fobes' writing has always been fearless, raw, truthful, and precise. This collection doesn’t shy away from what it means to transition from girlhood to being one's true self in adulthood. This collection blends essay, memoir, and cultural reporting seamlessly.
A relentless novel about an affair between a young French girl and her wealthy Chinese lover in pre-war Saigon. A story of passion, broken families, and finding your way alone in the world. A passionate novel of firsts - love, wealth, and the collapse of French colonialism.
An exhilarating novel about youth, love, class, and a love affair in New Delhi. Both gritty and lyrical, Kapoor's novel is a literary page-turner and the introduction to an exciting new voice.
Lily is waiting to attend Oxford while living under the scrutiny of her Singaporean mother and distant English father. When her mother suspects her father of having an affair she begins to become unhinged. The only way to calm her down is spoiled glasses of orange juice that Lily must taste first. Beautiful and shocking, it's an explosive story of mothers and daughters.
A sprawling, epic novel bursting with life and colorful characters, as well as a hunted man's spiritual search for meaning. from the slums of Bombay to the prisons of India, Shantaram is a masterpiece brimming with danger.
Hilton Als curates a collection that explores Didion’s work and life in a chronological arrangement. This collection includes more than 50 artists whose works vary in different mediums. Also featured are three previously uncollected texts by Didion. A wonderful gift for Joan Didon fans.
Award winning home cook turned chef Sabrina Ghayour brings over 100 fuss-free recipes that you will want to cook time and time again. Packed with maximum flavors that include no-cook, one-pot, and quick-cook dishes.
Allegra Goodman's Sam is a tender, brave, and original book about coming of age. Deftly balancing family, loss, self-discovery, and all their inherent complexities, Sam will have readers rooting for the title character even after they've finished. A brilliant, nuanced novel.
Internationally renowned conceptual artist Sophie Calle's newest edition of True Stories adds eight new stories to this collection that is part visual memoir and part meditation on photographs and belonging. Each is accompanied by an image and a fragment of life that covers favorite subjects--childhood, love, and death.