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May 30, 2024
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“Exquisite—poetic and hallucinatory, fading in and out of what is real and what is imagined like a cold fog.” — Grace Harper, Mac’s Backs (Cleveland Heights, OH)
“The main character’s trek towards death exposes several similarities between the living and the dead while also forcing the reader to consider desire and destruction as one and the same.” — Stuart McCommon, Interabang Books (Dallas, TX)
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“This collection left me speechless. . . . Every single poem bit me in a way I wasn’t expecting, turned me inside out. Wow. One of my new favorite books.” — Andrew Preston, CoffeeTree Books (Morehead, KY)
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| Remembering Kris Hallenga
We’re saddened by the passing of Kris Hallenga, who died from breast cancer this month at the age of 38. After receiving a terminal diagnosis 15 years ago, Hallenga became a fierce advocate for breast cancer awareness. She founded a nonprofit, CoppaFeel!, to educate young people about early detection, and she wrote about her experiences in a memoir, Glittering a Turd (Unbound), which publishes in the US in August. Read more about Hallenga’s life and legacy in the New York Times and The Guardian.
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| | Evil Eyes Sea
by Ozge Samanci
Uncivilized Books • June 2024 • 9781941250600
★ “As entertaining as it is exposing, Samanci’s sophomore title is an exquisite, multilayered showpiece confronting gender inequity, religious manipulations, political corruption, and the gray zones of morals and ethics—gray zones necessary for survival.” — Booklist
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“Cuadros died of AIDS in 1996, two years after chronicling the disease in City of God, a book of poems and stories about queer Los Angeles. His belated follow-up takes the same form, with the same bracing urgency.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Cecilia
by K-Ming Chang
Coffee House Press • May 2024 • 9781566897075
“The novel’s focus never wavers under the urgent verve of Chang’s prose. Her sentences are packed with internal rhyme and assonance, her metaphors drawn on corporeal imagery.” — Star Tribune
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| | Sex Goblin
by Lauren Cook
Nightboat Books • May 2024 • 9781643622330
“[A] virtuosic deployment of first-person narrative and literary craftsmanship . . . that it’s funny almost hides that it’s impressive, that we’ve gone from autofiction dupe to gory slapstick to mangled symbology.” — 4Columns
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“[Parampil’s] book is a gripping and well-documented account of American interference in Venezuelan politics, but it also reveals how often reporting from and on Venezuela is run through a partisan filter.” — New Republic
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| | Takaoka's Travels
by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, trans. David Boyd
Stone Bridge / MONKEY • May 2024 • 9798988688709
“A rich novel unlike almost anything else available in English translation from Japanese.” — Asian Review of Books
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“Laced with humor and philosophy throughout, My Life in Seventeen Books may be intensely personal, but its spirit will speak to any bibliophile.” — Daniel Goldin, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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