WINNER OF THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR LITERARY FICTIONIn this novel about peace in a time of war, debut author Jamaluddin Aram masterfully breathes life into the colourful characters of the town of Wazirabad, in early 1990s Kabul, Afghanistan.It is the early 1990s, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Russian occupation has ended, and civil war has broken out, but life roars on in full force in the working-class town of Wazirabad....

An exquisite debut collection on writing, exile, and rebuilding community after losing your homeland.In elegantly written and meticulously observed essays including “Afghanistan, the Beautiful Land of Endless Suffering,” “The Blood of Things,” and “Small Memories,” Jamaluddin Aram examines the complexities of his place of birth and the demands of forging a career in writing. He explores themes such as displacement, ethnic discrimination, and exile, balanced by the ...

An exquisite debut collection on writing, exile, and rebuilding community after losing your homeland.In elegantly written and meticulously observed essays including “Afghanistan, the Beautiful Land of Endless Suffering,” “The Blood of Things,” and “Small Memories,” Jamaluddin Aram examines the complexities of his place of birth and the demands of forging a career in writing. He explores themes such as displacement, ethnic discrimination, and exile, balanced by the ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD · LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA masterful coming-of-age novel and a gripping investigation into the life of a mysterious author who disappeared without a trace, by the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to be awarded France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt.Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book published in 1938 titled ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE“I was crying like I lost my best friend as I finished. . . . This book is an act of love . . . It will break you apart and remind you that we can all be put back together again, stronger, and wiser than before.” — XOCHITL GONZALEZ, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies DreamingAn emotionally riveting coming-of-age drama about two cous...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 MAYA ANGELOU BOOK AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker • TIME • NPR • ELLE • Amazon • ABC ArtsFrom the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, comes a masterful and...

“A poetic debut which masterfully intertwines themes of familial love, friendship, class, prejudice and trauma with psychological acuity and wit.”─ The 2023 Booker Prize JudgesI lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.Sunday Forrester does things more carefully than most people. On certain days, she must eat only white food; she drinks only carbonated beverages; she avoids clocks. It's 1988, before a...

*A Reader's Digest Best Book of 2023**A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book**A Book of the Month Club Pick**A Brit+Co Book to Read in 2023**A Town & Country Best Book to Read in May**A Good Morning America Buzz Book Pick*An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer in...

A TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick!A powerful work of historical fiction about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored thereIt is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the dec...

A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post***• Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library Journal***A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their ownersOn a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys—as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himse...

Finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus ReviewsAn extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bo...

WINNER – 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writers Prizes for NonfictionFINALIST – Governor General's Literary Award for NonfictionFINALIST – Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard—that of the child at the centre of a transracial adoption—and a searing account of being raised by religious fundamentalists