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A self-deprecating joke becomes a curse, or maybe a liberation, as a new mother morphs into an angry dog in this fable about the physical and psychological alienation of motherhood.

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What’s so amazing about this historically-grounded fantasy is how plausible it feels: In 1955, 600,000 women spontaneously turned into fire-breathing dragons—and perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s happening again.

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A fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl, crosses worlds different as land and sea, at every turn protecting her voice—powerful, individual, often hilarious—from the poverty and violence that would silence it.

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A woman’s dream life becomes frighteningly real, somewhere that feels, in this dark, beautifully-drawn narrative, like an undersea world from which she returns with clues dripping wet in her hands.

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A queer horror story about a woman whose partner comes back mentally and physically altered from a botched deep-sea expedition. Also, an ecologically-expansive, poetic tale of the unknown inside us.

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If female desire is often considered dangerous, then Jonas really gives us something to fear—and savor—in the appetites of an ageing university professor, reawakened by the title character.

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Garnett’s narrator tells of the “sudden change of Mrs. Tebrick into a vixen” with a journalistic deadpan that conjures a one-off mystery while also depicting the typical inequities of marriage.  

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The deep sea seems more fabulous than any myth (creatures with glass skeletons; a 500-year old shark). Just as we begin to understand it, we are beginning to destroy it.