**"A dark valentine of a novel." --TIME Magazine"A sly subversion and exemplar of the [romance] form." --The New York TimesA big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant love story about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find someone that could change her life forever**Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The granddaughter of Holocaust surviv...

Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America.When sixteen-year-old Gabriel Lazris, an American in Santiago, Chile, meets Caro Ravest, something clicks. Caro, who is Chilean, is charming, curious, and deeply herself. Gabriel dreams of their future together. ...

After moving from Peru north of the Arctic circle to begin graduate school, Claudia Ulloa Donoso began blogging about insomnia. Not hers, necessarily – the blog was never defined as fact or fiction. Her blog posts became the bones of Little Bird, short stories with a nod to fervent self-declaration of diary entries and the hallucinatory haze of sleeplessness. Blending narration and personal experience, the stories in Little Bird stretch reality, a sharp-shooting combinati...

“It’s impossible to get a single answer from the past. It’s not a key to anything. It’s just a place we go to trick ourselves.”Andrea and Julián haven’t seen one another in twenty-one years—not since the tragic, fateful night their senior year of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A startling phone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel the truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their ...

**A paradigm-shifting achievement, built from the author’s own research, showing that pregnancy profoundly transforms our brains even more than adolescence does.Dispels “mommy brain” stereotypes and trailblazes new understanding at the core of humanity with warmth and compassion.**Eighty-five percent of women experience pregnancy at some point in their lives. It enables the very existence of our species. Yet this first step in the process of nurturing the next generation ha...

In September 1977, Sandra Mozarowsky—a seventeen-year-old Spanish erotic film actress and purported lover of King Juan Carlos I—died after leaping from her fourth-floor balcony in Madrid. The mysterious circumstances surrounding her death drew immediate public interest and generated conspiracy theories. Was her death a suicide? A covert murder? A cry for help? In The Shy Assassin, award-winning Spanish novelist Clara Usón uses the tragic death of Mozarowsky to provide a powerful p...

“Abraham Jiménez Enoa writes like an angel and has an impressively keen social radar…He’s an exceptional interlocutor, and, for readers of this unmissable book, he’s an empathic, sincere guide to his Cuba, a country as beautiful and beloved as it is sad and unjust.”—Jon Lee AndersonThe work of one of the most powerful new voices in independent Cuban journalism, The Hidden Island is a searing portrait of life in contemporary Cuba, where the struggle...

Claudia Ulloa Donoso is an expert at writing gently alienated characters. Sometimes, their dislocation is the result of geography. Occasionally, it stems from their social conditions: consider "Alarm," in which every sound and moment is skewed by the narrator's terror of her abusive partner, or "The Transfiguration of Melina," whose religious teenage heroine starts the story detached from her sexuality, and ends it anything but. More often, though, Claudia's characters are simply Martians:...

"It's impossible to get a single answer from the past. It's not a key to anything. It's just a place we go to trick ourselves."Andrea and Julián haven't seen one another in twenty-one years—not since that tragic, fateful night their senior year of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A shocking phone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel the truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their ...

**A paradigm-shifting achievement, built from the author’s own research, showing that pregnancy profoundly transforms our brains even more than adolescence does.Dispels “mommy brain” stereotypes and trailblazes new understanding at the core of humanity with warmth and compassion.**Eighty-five percent of women experience pregnancy at some point in their lives. It is an experience enabling the very existence of our species. Yet this first step in the process of nurturing the ...

**"A dark valentine of a novel." --TIME Magazine"A sly subversion and exemplar of the [romance] form." --The New York TimesA big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant love story about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find someone that could change her life forever**Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The granddaughter of Holocaust surviv...