The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories. Debuter Khalid was inspired to write after reading Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, also published by Grove Atlantic. Youssef is secretly sustained by an imaginary double, and all three boys discover the past and rethink the future when they travel to Saudi Arabia with their father.
But they are adopted brothers, living above a Staten Island mosque with their imam father, who passionately preaches against Western values while remaining disengaged at home. LITERARYĭayo’s heritage is Nigerian, Iseul’s is Korean, and Youssef’s undefinedly Middle Eastern. candidate at the Black Mountain Institute. From debuter Bello, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Ph.D. In and out of therapy sessions, she faces a traumatic incident that battered her childhood and records messages for her unborn daughter. Unexpectedly pregnant after years of wanting family and connection but holding back, a young Black woman named Sumatra returns to the United States from her adopted city of Beijing and drops the medication she’s used to manage a dissociative disorder. From the author of the Somerset Maugham Award–winning and Man Booker long-listed The Teleportation Accident.īello, Jumi. Then a cyberattack wipes out the banks, and two men hunt for a surviving venomous lumpsucker-not a pretty fish but the world’s smartest-across a landscape dotted with floating cities and toxic-waste repositories. In the 2030s, the DNA sequences of vanishing species are being digitized and uploaded to a global biobank network, the better to revive them. With a 60,000-copy first printing.īeauman, Ned. Albert’s novels include 2015’s multi-best-booked After Birth and 2008’s Sami Rohr finalist The Book of Dahlia, both variously described as acerbic, blistering, and compelling, so be prepared. On her fourth album, singer-songwriter Aviva Rosner shares her struggles to have a child (and resistance to assisted reproductive technology), and fans and critics respond explosively. The July 2022 Prepub Alert posts are also available as a downloadable spreadsheet of titles.
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