The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke
Yan Lianke’s new novel asks: Are we dreamwalking through our entire lives?
Fiction
Revolution Sunday by Wendy Guerra
Wendy Guerra, award-winning poet, novelist, actress, and television host, tackles surveillance, paranoia, and the instability of reality in her second novel translated into English.
The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila
Amparo Dávila’s collection is reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, and Edgar Allen Poe, and tests the limits of fiction.
Unfurled by Michelle Bailat-Jones
In Unfurled, the reader is pulled forward in short, well-crafted chapters that simulate the rough-and-tumble journey through shock, grief, and the revelation of knowledge that the narrator initially rejects—that her mother survived and was in touch with her father.
The Lake on Fire, by Rosellen Brown
In response to her novel, The Lake on Fire, Rosellen Brown has been compared to both Jane Austen and Tillie Olsen.
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza
Garza’s use of language and suspense is so skillful that she can remind us of the artifice of fiction in one moment, holding us up so we can see everything in its place, and in the next push our heads back beneath the surface of its conceit.
After the Winter by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey
Guadalupe Nettel’s writing, in an excellent translation by Rosalind Harvey, is spare, occasionally eerie and always elegant.
Other People’s Love Affairs by D. Wystan Owen
D. Wystan Owen’s beautiful debut collection is a book to treasure. The ten quiet stories are linked by place, but they are also linked by Owen’s great fascination with understanding the weight of the past on the present.
The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg
Buoyed by van den Berg’s sinuous, marvelous sentences, the novel is a deep dive into memory, love, and loss as filtered through film theory, metaphysics, and the humid, sunstroked cityscape of Havana.