**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s."I have a feeling I won’t forget Hana, perpetually running up life’s down escalator, willing to try anything to scrape together a little happiness." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“To read her work is to feel that she is not afraid of anything at all.” —The...

A humorous, tender novel about found families and the people who shape our livesYuko has had four different surnames and been brought up in several families, and by various step-parents. Despite not being related by blood, they have all always cared deeply for her. Through it all, pragmatic and resilient, Yuko has navigated life's changes and its occasional conflicts without bitterness, always managing to find a kind of equilibrium.As an adult, Yuko falls i...

The various words for “divorce” in Japanese—*rien, enkiri, fūfu wakare, rikon—*reflect how the socially constructed institutions of marriage and family, along with their dissolutions, have been understood in Japanese history and jurisprudence. Employing a broad definition of divorce as the end of a romantic union sanctioned by law, social custom, or mutual agreement, Bold Breaks: Japanese Women and Literary Narratives of Divorce explores the shifting attitudes toward divorce in li...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s."I have a feeling I won’t forget Hana, perpetually running up life’s down escalator, willing to try anything to scrape together a little happiness." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“To read her work is to feel that she is not afraid of anything at all.” —The...

**Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar."Narrator Rachel Elizabeth Smith’s absorbing performance makes each story unforgettable.” — Kirkus Reviews**"Rachel Elizabeth Smith narrates so crisply that listeners won't miss a single word...and delivers with a straightforward clarity that gives each piece its place in the spotli...

A Library Reads pick!A Best Book of the Year from Esquire. Featured on NPR.Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar.With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate.Narrated by Carolyn Kang.Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night o...

Read by Sofia Jin and Jessica Lee"Lee and Jin’s beautifully matched narration makes the evolving partnership feel immediate, sincere, and deeply personal. A gentle listening experience celebrating friendship, shared lives, and connection." -Audiofile Magazine, Earphones Award WinnerThe big-hearted, bestselling South Korean memoir co-written by two best friends flouting gender norms and societal expectations with their decision to gr...

**From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.“Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—EsquireNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY**An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity...

An instant USA Today bestseller!From the USA Today bestselling author of The Book Eaters comes The Girl with a Thousand Faces, a stunning Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive.When Mercy Chan washes up on the shores of Hong Kong with no family, no money, and no memories, the only refuge s...

A taut psychological thriller about the hidden demons that guide our convictions, our biases, and our deepest desires, available in English for the first time from “Japan’s Agatha Christie.” (The Sunday Times)In the middle of the night, a car drives off a pier. An elderly man drowns, but his young wife lives. The wife’s name is Kumako Onizuka, and with a past stained by yakuza entanglements and criminal activity, she is accused of orchestrating the acciden...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEIn a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own."The Witch is classic NDiaye. Taut, spellbinding and strange, it unfolds with the disturbed logic of a fever dream." —The New York Times"The Witch is Marie NDiaye at her most dazzling. In this simple, startlin...