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Thomas, a troubled man in his thirties, chains a former classmate turned astronaut in an abandoned military base on the Pacific coast, then brings in more captives one by one, a congressman, a teacher, a policeman, his own mother, demanding answers, in a novel told entirely in dialogue.
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Citizen: An American Lyric
A genre-bending work using poetry, essay, and image to document the accumulation of racial microaggressions and violence in everyday American life.
Mantissa
A novelist confined to a hospital bed is attended by a muse who transforms into different women, in Fowles' most experimental and playful novel.
Chess Story
On a ship to Buenos Aires, a reclusive Austrian lawyer who survived Nazi solitary confinement with a stolen book of chess problems takes on the reigning world champion.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
A story collection that threads transcripts of interviews with men about how they treat women among other experimental stories, from a boy on a high diving board to a depressed woman who cannot stop talking about her pain.
Room
Five-year-old Jack has lived his whole life in an eleven-foot-square room with his mother, held prisoner by a man they call Old Nick, and to Jack, Room is the whole world.
Several People Are Typing
Gerald, who works at a public relations firm in New York, finds his consciousness trapped inside the company's Slack, and his colleagues assume he is just working from home.
Ilustrado
A young Filipino writer in New York investigates the death of his mentor, a famous exiled novelist pulled from the Hudson, and his own story tangles with fragments of the dead man's work.
How Should a Person Be?
A young woman in Toronto tries to figure out how to live by imitating her friends, making art, and asking the title question with increasing desperation.
Lost Children Archive
A family drives from New York to the Arizona borderlands, the mother to document children caught at the border, the father to record the echoes of the Apache, as their marriage comes apart.
Women Without Men
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.
Open Throat
A queer, lonely, hungry mountain lion living under the Hollywood sign narrates Los Angeles in loose lines of hunger, fire, and human voyeurism.
Just Us: An American Conversation
A hybrid of poems, essays, and images documenting Rankine's attempts to hold everyday conversations about whiteness with friends, strangers, and herself.