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• Misinterpretation

  a Novel

  Xhoga, Ledia,

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  Ledia Xhoga’s ruminative debut novel interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation.

• Flesh

  a Novel

  Szalay, David,

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  A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unraveled by a series of events beyond his grasp.

• Endling

  a Novel

  Reva, Maria,

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  An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine.

• Audition

  Kitamura, Katie, 1979-

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  An exhilarating, destabilizing novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

  a Novel

  Desai, Kiran, 1971-

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  A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity.

• Flashlight

  a Novel

  Choi, Susan, 1969-

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  A thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family.

• Universality

  a Novel

  Brown, Natasha (Novelist),

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  A twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power.

• The South

  a Novel

  Aw, Tash,

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  A radiant novel about family, desire and what we inherit, and the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer.

• The Land in Winter

  Miller, Andrew, 1961-

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  A masterful, page-turning examination of the minutiae of life and a dazzling chronicle of the human heart.

• Love Forms

  a Novel

  Adam, Claire,

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  In this heart-aching novel, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago.