“Everyone grieves differently. There’s no way to do it. It shows up some days, and it passes on other days.” After burning out last year, Angelica is ready to get her life back together. Thankfully she has amazing friends to support her…including Peri the Bear, the mascot of her town’s local theater. At her lowest…
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We Survived the Night by Julian Brave Noisecat
“Because, like so many other Indian men, Dad is a trickster through and through. He makes things out of the magic in his hands. He scatters stories all about his trail. Usually, he’s in the wind. But sometimes, he stays just a little while, lingering with the loved ones who celebrate his work, remember his…
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
“The lake was like a mirror, sky and earth lay there upside down.” The Birds tells the story of Mattis, a deeply sensitive, intellectually disabled young man living in a small house in the Norwegian countryside with his sister Hege. Eking out a modest living knitting sweaters, Hege encourages her brother to find work to…
A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal
“Come now, Arthie. You know better than that. I’m certain the evil Ram waters the peonies in her garden. Many well-mannered wives dip their biscuits in their tea while dreaming of butchering their husbands. We contain multitudes.” White Roaring is sharpening its fangs after the deadly night that left the city in shambles. The press…
The Memory of the Ogisi by Moses Ose Utomi
“Evil didn’t change. The evil of yesteryear was no different from the evil of today, and the Aleke had shown him that.” The City of a Thousand Stories stands resolute on the edge of the Forever Desert. It is a lush metropolis, where water flows into every mouth that thirsts and knowledge sprouts in every…
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
“Gentle souls cast as devils in humankind’s ongoing stage play of existence. It’s Oppression 101: find a bad guy, and if you can’t, make one up.” On Kupala Night, Dymitr arrives in Chicago’s monstrous, magical underworld with a perilous mission: pick the mythical fern flower and offer it to a cursed creature in exchange for…
Under the Oak Tree: Vol. 1 (The Novel) by Suji Kim
“If you ever speak about my wife that way again,” Riftan spat out each word with blistering menace, “I will slice you open from mouth to groin.” Lady Maximilian is the daughter of the powerful Duke Croyso, but she is rarely allowed outside her family’s sprawling castle for fear that her stutter will tarnish their…
The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin
“Your first time working with the clay will be a shock. Don’t try to be perfect, just think about getting sixty percent of the way there. No more, no less, just sixty percent.” After breaking down at the office and abruptly quitting her job, thirty-year-old Jungmin holes up in her apartment, speaking to no one…
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
“How much of ME is my own and how much is stamped into my blood and bone, predestined?” Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and…
Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror edited by Xueting Christine Ni
“At its beating heart, Horror as a genre is about human nature, and even when it extends beyond humanity, utilising the full toolbox of fantasy and the impossible, it is still about the impact on the frail human mind and body.” I’ve read a variety of translated literature from China, but this was going to…
The Great Book Wyrm 