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Maud Newton Confronts Her Past
The debut author's mesmerizing memoir, 'Ancestor Trouble,' casts a wide net in reckoning with her family history.
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Secrets and Lies in Anna Pitoniak’s New Thriller
'Our American Friend' centers on a friendship between a journalist and her subject—a foreign-born first lady with an intriguing past.
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The Resurrected Women of Maud Casey's Fourth Novel
The forgotten women of a 19th-century asylum come to life through archival photos and lyrical prose in 'City of Incurable Women.'
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Gwen E. Kirby Makes an Uproarious Literary Debut
The author challenges society and women’s place in her masterful, hilarious short story collection 'Shit Cassandra Saw.'
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Jessamine Chan's Chilling Debut Novel
A single mother faces consequences after a bad judgment call in 'The School for Good Mothers.'
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Bisi Adjapon's Searing American Debut
The author's new novel, 'The Teller of Secrets,' her first to be published in the U.S., tells the tale of a young girl in 1960s Ghana defying tradition and forging her own path to womanhood.
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Lisa Harding's Sophomore Novel Comes Stateside
‘Bright Burning Things,’ a new novel from the Irish writer, tackles motherhood and addiction.
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Matthew Pearl's Latest Explores the American Frontier
Matthew Pearl explores the story of the American frontier through the kidnapping of Daniel Boone’s daughter.
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Wole Soyinka Returns
'Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth,' the first novel from the Nobel laureate in nearly half a century, is a sensuous and scathing satire of contemporary Nigeria.
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Myriam J.A. Chancy Charts the Reverberations of a Disaster
In her American debut novel, 'What Storm, What Thunder,' the author tells a story of the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
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