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If you love Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead and Toni Morrison

If you love Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead and Toni Morrison

Bookseller Nialle Sylvan says that Rivers Solomon’s novel earns comparisons to some of the biggest names in literature.
by Tracy Mumford

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Coming to terms with loss and grief in the gorgeous 'Everything Inside'

Coming to terms with loss and grief in the gorgeous 'Everything Inside'

Edwidge Danticat's new story collection explores the ways people deal with death, from a woman whose barely known father is dying to a man facing his last seconds as he falls from a construction site.
by Michael Schaub

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Telepathy and surveillance converge in 'Overthrow'

Telepathy and surveillance converge in 'Overthrow'

Caleb Crain's perceptive novel examines the ways we're all under surveillance by corporations and computers, every move and click tracked, and the ways that intersects with how we watch each other.
by Annalisa Quinn

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'The Warehouse' is scary because it's plausible

'The Warehouse' is scary because it's plausible

Rob Hart's new dystopian cyberthriller imagines a near-future America in a state of semi-collapse, where the only jobs available are in company towns built by an enormous conglomerate called Cloud.
by Gabino Iglesias

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'My Papi has a Motorcycle' pays loving tribute to a California childhood

'My Papi has a Motorcycle' pays loving tribute to a California childhood

Author Isabel Quintero and illustrator Zeke Peña worked together on My Papi Has a Motorcycle, a homage to Quintero's childhood in California's Inland Empire, and to her hard-working father.
by Leila Fadel and Samantha Balaban

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'The Downstairs Girl' faces difficult history with joy and style

'The Downstairs Girl' faces difficult history with joy and style

In Stacey Lee's new novel, an opinionated and talented Chinese American girl makes her way in Reconstruction-era Atlanta while preserving her secret work as an advice columnist in the local paper.
by Caitlyn Paxson

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In 'Automatic Eve,' steampunk meets 'Blade Runner' — in Japan

In 'Automatic Eve,' steampunk meets 'Blade Runner' — in Japan

Rokuro Inui's mosaic novel is set in a lush alternate Japan, full of cricket fighting tournaments, beautiful automata and intricate webs of plot and counter-plot around the mysterious Eve.
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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A girl goes missing, but it's not a mystery

A girl goes missing, but it's not a mystery

“It is the most surprising book I have read all year,” says bookseller Emilie Sommer.
by Tracy Mumford

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Characters shine in powerful, dreamy 'The World Doesn't Require You'

Characters shine in powerful, dreamy 'The World Doesn't Require You'

Rion Amilcar Scott's second story collection returns readers to his fictional town of Cross River, Md., site of America's only successful slave uprising, and God is one of the best-known residents.
by Michael Schaub

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