Books like Death Valley
With her father in intensive care after an accident, a novelist from Los Angeles checks into a Best Western in Death Valley to hike alone, and the desert begins to open up in ways she cannot explain.
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Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.
Hell of a Book
A Black author on a book tour and a boy fleeing violence alternate chapters in a novel about race, storytelling, and whose pain gets to be seen.
After the Quake
Six stories set in the weeks after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, about people shaken by it from a distance, including a bank debt collector whom a giant frog recruits to save Tokyo from a worm underground.
Pure Colour
In a world presented as God's first draft, Mira studies art criticism, falls for a woman named Annie, and after her father dies finds that her spirit has passed into a leaf, alongside his.
All's Well
A chronically ill college theatre director stakes her recovery on a cursed production of All's Well That Ends Well.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
In 2016, Finn, a suspended history teacher visiting his dying brother in a New York hospice, ends up on a strange road trip through the South with his ex-girlfriend Lily, who has recently died.
The Book of Illusions
A man watches a silent film and becomes obsessed with the actor, whose disappearance fifty years ago may hold the key to his own unraveling life.
Killing Commendatore
A portrait painter in a rural Japanese valley discovers a hidden painting and a mysterious pit, and both lead him towards a vanished man and the nature of inspiration.
Bliss Montage
Eight surreal stories about women in flight from the past: one lives in a house with her husband and all of her ex-boyfriends, another takes a drug that makes her disappear.
Mostly Dead Things
After her father's death, Jessa-Lynn Morton takes over the family taxidermy shop in Tampa, while her mother starts posing the stuffed animals in explicit tableaux and her brother falls apart.
No One Is Talking About This
A poet's life is split between a pre-internet childhood and the social media hellscape of the present, told in fragments that capture the vertigo of the timeline.
Trout Fishing in America
A series of short, odd pieces in which the phrase 'Trout Fishing in America' becomes a person, a hotel, a place and a way of life, Brautigan's gentle, sideways picture of the country in the 1960s.