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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >>>     sort list by title | author Large Animals Stories Like telling a joke at a funeral. Like getting the spins in a friend's car. Like losing a limb but gaining some costume-shop wings. —Recommended by Ivy Behind the Moon Madison Smartt Bell "A kind of primal storytelling that crackles with dread and desire."—O Magazine The Mirror Thief A Novel Seay's debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery, and an enchanting historical adventure story." Set in three cities in three eras.—Recommended by Andy All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.—Recommended by Andy Modern Love Constance De Jong Sexy-cool-weirdos, delight! A read for those both disenchanted and lovelorn. Reminiscent of Cortazar and Kathy Acker. —Recommended by Ivy An Unrestored Woman Shobha Rao In paired stories that hail from India and Pakistan to the United States, Italy, and England, we witness the ramifications of the violent uprooting of families, the price they pay over generations, and the uncanny relevance these stories have in our world today. —Recommended by Jared, City Lights Booksellers The Year of the Runaways A Novel Sunjeev Sahota The Year of the Runaways is a stunning work of fiction that explores what it means and what it costs to make a new life, the capaciousness of the human spirit, and the power of humanity in the face of unspeakable suffering. —Recommended by Paul, City Lights Books Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Stories Kathleen Collins Miraculously unearthed from the past, it is unimaginable now to think that we lived so long without this cinematic and daring collection of stories. —Recommended by Cassie, City Lights Books Motherland Hotel Yusuf Atılgan Camus meets Orhan Pamuk, via Freud, in this existentialist novel by the father of Turkish modernism. Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist A Novel Sunil Yapa On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor—a nomadic, scrappy teenager who's run away from home—sets out to sell as much marijuana as possible to the throng of WTO demonstrators determined to shut down the city. With the proceeds, he plans to buy a plane ticket and leave Seattle forever, but it quickly becomes clear that the history-making... Selected Works Justin Chin, Jennifer Joseph A Bay Area legend who knew how to excite readers, make them laugh, leave them devastated. Then, make them fall in love (with him), say "Heck yeah!" & clap their hands until it hurt—it still hurts. A beautiful soul taken too soon. —Recommended by Jared The Revolutionaries Try Again A Novel Mauro Javier Cardenas Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends—an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright—who are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including each other. Purity A Novel Jonathan Franzen Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother―her only family―is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse... A Manual for Cleaning Women Selected Stories Lucia Berlin Detox centers, laundromats, and triage units are not expected terrain for short stories, but these are the scenarios you find yourself in while reading Lucia Berlin. Her writing is absurdly real and tragically hilarious, often plucked from her own tumultuous life. —Recommended by Cassie, City Lights Books and also by Peter, City Lights Books <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >>>