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In Tehran in the summer of 1953, five women of different classes, each escaping something, end up together in a garden in the town of Karaj.
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Arabian Nights and Days
Mahfouz picks up the Thousand and One Nights where Shahrazad stops, with the sultan's killing over and the people of the city crossing paths with genies and magic.
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.
The Tiger's Wife
Natalia, a young doctor in an unnamed Balkan country after the wars, learns that her grandfather has died far from home, and goes back over the stories he told her of the tiger's wife and the deathless man.
The Night Watchman
A Turtle Mountain Chippewa night watchman fights to protect his community's rights against a 1950s congressional effort to terminate tribal sovereignty.
Orange World
Stories about a new mother nursing a demon, climate-changed worlds, and the strange arrangements people make with dread.
Martin Dressler
Martin Dressler, a cigar-maker's son in late-nineteenth-century New York, rises from bellboy to builder of ever grander and stranger hotels.
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.
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Debut stories populated by werewolf-girl boarding schools, Minotaur cowboys, and sleep-disordered children in Florida swamps.
Dreaming in Cuban
Three generations of women of the del Pino family, a grandmother loyal to Castro in Cuba and her daughters and granddaughter in Brooklyn and Havana, are divided by politics and the sea.
The Lonely Londoners
Moses Aloetta, an old hand in London, meets the new arrivals from the West Indies at Waterloo station and helps them find rooms and work through the grey seasons of the 1950s.
Saman
Four women and a priest navigate love, politics, and identity in Suharto-era Indonesia.
The Story of Zahra
Zahra, a young woman scarred by her childhood in Beirut, comes home from Africa as the civil war begins, and starts an affair with a sniper.