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Ireland passes an emergency law that strips citizens of their rights overnight, and one family watches democracy die in real time.
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Our Missing Hearts
Bird Gardner, twelve, lives in a quiet America where laws against un-American behaviour have made Asian Americans suspects, and three years after his mother, a Chinese-American poet, left without a word, a letter from her arrives.
The School for Good Mothers
Frida Liu, a divorced mother in Philadelphia, leaves her toddler alone at home for two hours on one bad day, and the state sends her for a year to a re-education camp for mothers, to be trained with robot children.
Parable of the Sower
As civilisation collapses from climate change and inequality, a young woman with a dangerous gift of empathy leads survivors north towards a new beginning.
The New Wilderness
A mother and her sickly daughter join twenty volunteers exiled from a dying city into the last protected American wilderness, where the rules are the weather and each other.
The Green Road
Rosaleen Madigan, a difficult matriarch in County Clare, announces she is selling the family house, and her four grown children, scattered from New York to Mali, come home for one last Christmas.
The Dream Hotel
Coming home from a conference, Sara Hussein, a mother of twins, is detained at Los Angeles airport because an algorithm reading her dreams has judged that she is likely to commit a crime, and she is sent to a retention centre for observation.
Say You're One of Them
Five stories, each seen through a child's eyes: a family in a Nairobi shack, children being trafficked across Benin, a bus journey across Nigeria during religious riots, a girl in Addis Ababa and a girl in Rwanda in 1994.
In the Shadow of the Banyan
Raami, a seven-year-old girl from Cambodia's royal family, is driven out of Phnom Penh with her family when the Khmer Rouge take the city in 1975.
Brown Girl in the Ring
In a near-future Toronto whose core has been abandoned by the rich, Ti-Jeanne, a young mother, lives with her grandmother, a healer who works with the spirits, while a crime lord hunts for a human heart for a politician's transplant.
Darkness at Noon
Rubashov, an old Bolshevik who helped build the revolution, is arrested by the regime he served and interrogated in his cell, and the novel follows the logic that leads loyal men to confess to crimes they never committed.
Please Look After Mom
When their sixty-nine-year-old mother vanishes in a crowded Seoul subway station, her husband and grown children search the city and realise how little they knew about her.
The Handmaid's Tale
In a theocratic dystopia, a woman is valued only for her fertility, forced to bear children for the ruling class.