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Fiction
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Books in this online selection represent only a sliver of what we offer in the store. If you've got a particular book in mind and want to check on its availability, call us at 415-362-8193.
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Vernon Subutex 1
Virginie Despentes
From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex—short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize. But who is Vernon Subutex?
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The Promise
Silvina Ocampo
A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity.
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Forgotten Journey
Silvina Ocampo
Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.
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I Hotel
Tenth Anniversary Edition
Karen Tei Yamashita
An epic journey through one of America's most transformative decades via the stories of the activists, laborers, and students who shaped it. ––Recommended by Paul
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.
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Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman
An NYRB Classics Original. In Stalingrad, published here for the first time in English translation, and in its celebrated sequel, Life and Fate, Grossman writes with extraordinary power and deep compassion about the disasters of war and the ruthlessness of totalitarianism.
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Tears of the Trufflepig
A Novel
Fernando A. Flores
Recommended by PaulAn absurdist take on life along the border, an ode to the myths of Mexican culture, and an introduction to a staggeringly smart new voice in American fiction.
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Severance
Ling Ma
Recommended by AnnaMaybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.
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Little Fires Everywhere
A Novel
Celeste Ng
From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.
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The Overstory
A Novel
Richard Powers
Recommended by Andy & MichaelA book for all readers who despair of humanity's self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? "Listen. There's something you need to hear."
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The Immortalists
A Novel
Chloe Benjamin
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Stories
Denis Johnson
Recommended by Michael"A bewitching epitaph. Nobody reported from the haunted depths of American life quite like Johnson."
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Conversations with Friends
A Novel
Sally Rooney
"[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship."—Entertainment Weekly
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Poso Wells
Gabriela Alemán
Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance!
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