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In Praise of Anita Rau Badami by Caitlin Fehir
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"Red Leaves", a short story by Can Xue
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Tess Gallagher: Lying Next to the Knife by Caroline McElwee
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Reviews
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GILLESPIE AND I
Jane Harris
Gillespie and I is a book that refuses to be easily categorized. Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery, and part Victorian Gothic, Harris's second novel joins the ranks of…
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Reviewed by Deborah Montouri
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FIRE FROM THE ANDES: SHORT FICTION BY WOMEN FROM BOLIVIA, ECUADOR, AND PERU
Susan E. Benner and Kathy S. Leonard
Translated from the Spanish by Susan E. Benner and Kathy S. Leonard
Imagine you knew that Death would come for you on your next birthday, precisely at the time that you were born. Would you try to cheat her out of claiming you?
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie-Dawood
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VERTICAL MOTION
Can Xue
Translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping
Can Xue's stories collected here are expeditions into the literary fantastic: unaccountable states in which the impossible is commonplace, and the reactions of commonplace people are nothing like normal.
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Reviewed by Michael Matthew
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THE SLEEPWALKER
Margarita Karapanou
Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
As the novel opens God is pondering his creation of mankind and feeling that he has made an error. "For the first time he felt sad, and deeply bored. He saw that his people were small and ridiculous, and he was gripped by an awful rage …
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Reviewed by Amanda Meale
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THE BOOK OF DOUBT
Tessa de Loo
The Book of Doubt tells the story of a young Dutch man's search for his father, a Moroccan musician his mother had a brief relationship with. Accompanied by his best friend Hassan, the man, Saeed, takes a road trip around Morocco …
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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