Books like Our Wives Under the Sea
A deep-sea researcher returns from a months-long submarine mission in bad shape, and her wife watches the woman she loves slowly become something else in their flat.
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Salt Slow
Nine stories of bodies changing in strange ways, from a girl whose skin begins to peel away to a city where people's sleep wanders off without them.
They Both Die at the End
In a New York where a service called Death-Cast phones people on the day they will die, Mateo and Rufus, two teenagers who get the call just after midnight, meet through an app called Last Friend and spend their last day together.
Aliss at the Fire
In 2002, Signe lies on a bench in an old house by a fjord, remembering the November day in 1979 when her husband Asle rowed out onto the water and did not come back.
Julia
After her daughter's death, Julia Lofting leaves her husband and buys a large empty house in Holland Park, where she keeps glimpsing a girl who looks like her daughter.
The Vegetarian
A Korean woman stops eating meat, and her quiet refusal escalates into a crisis that consumes her family and transforms her body into something inhuman.
Don't Look Now
Stories of grief, premonition, and dread, including the title novella of a couple haunted by their dead child in Venice.
Her Body and Other Parties
Eight genre-bending stories about women's bodies, from a wife who will not let her husband untie the green ribbon at her neck to a woman who sees the ghosts of murdered girls while recapping Law & Order: SVU.
The Pilot's Wife
Kathryn Lyons is woken before dawn in her New Hampshire farmhouse by the news that her husband Jack's plane has gone down off the coast of Ireland, and as investigators suggest he caused the crash, she begins to find she did not know the man she married.
Hamnet
Shakespeare's wife raises their twins in plague-era Stratford, and when their son dies, she channels her grief into the creation of a play her husband will write.
Stay With Me
Yejide and Akin, a happily married couple in 1980s Nigeria, still have no children after four years, and Akin's family brings home a second wife.
Men Without Women
Seven stories about men who have lost the women in their lives, including an actor who hires a young woman as his driver and finds himself telling her about his late wife.
Last Words from Montmartre
Twenty letters written by a young Taiwanese woman in Paris to the lover who has left her.