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Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
$28.00 $26.04"Biography of X is Catherine Lacey at her best. Her continued exploration of the self’s mutability comes fully realized in a heartbreaking and intensely addictive novel of longing, identity, doubt, and discovery. The playfulness equals the ambition. The genius is second to none." —Nathan Stormer, Bookshop.org
Flux
Jinwoo Chong
$28.99 $26.96"Flux is a powerful debut - deft and fluid, sharp and dreamy. Employing the vehicle of a breakneck sci-fi thriller, Jinwoo Chong explores interstitial spaces of ethnicity, sexuality, trauma, pop cultural memory and, finally, time itself, with wit, tenderness and alacrity. The result is provocative and deeply moving." —Sam Lipsyte, author of Venus Drive
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
$28.00 $26.04"Reading Poverty, by America, I felt like Matthew Desmond was sitting at my kitchen table, explaining the complexities of poverty in a way I could completely understand. This book is essential and instructive, hopeful and enraging. It is a road map for how we can be better people, working together to build a better country." —Ann Patchett
Wandering Souls
Cecile Pin
$26.99 $25.10"A debut in name only, Wandering Souls is an astute and sure-footed excavation of family, selfhood, and loss in the shadow of colonial violence. It is also a deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope through a long-overdue portrayal of Vietnamese life in the UK. A mighty achievement." —Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Commitment
Mona Simpson
$30.00 $27.90"A powerful family love story propelled by Simpson's profound understanding of people tested by that which could destroy them. Here are three children whose loyalty is divided for years between what might be best for their depressive mother and the paths that could allow them to have meaningful lives. In this beautifully written novel, the constant emotional and financial struggles make their hard-won triumphs, large and small, that much more glorious." —Amy Hempel, author of Sing to It
Woman of the Year
Darcey Bell
$17.00 $15.81A deliciously twisty thriller about the dark side of female friendship and a revenge plot that gets a little out of hand from the New York Times bestselling author of the "intense, captivating, and astonishing" (New York Journal of Books) A Simple Favor
The Fake
Zoe Whittall
$28.00 $26.04"Zoe Whittall's gripping new novel, The Fake, upends the expected scammer narrative. Instead of cozying up to the fake herself, we're caught alongside the two vulnerable people who cling to her as a quick fix for psychic pain. We know this woman who weaponizes false victimhood to get what she wants will only hurt them more, but the story's irresistible momentum defies us to look away." —Laura Sims, author of Looker
Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973
Annie Cohen-Solal
$40.00 $37.20"[Cohen-Solal] has done scholars a service by doggedly working through the archives to see how this great artist responded to repeated threats to his stability as an outsider in France . . . This hydra of a book, one head assessing Picasso's art, the other looking at how he negotiated his position in France in politically tense times, is strongly recommended to all Picasso enthusiasts." —Library Journal