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as one of their 5 Under 35 nominees last year. Her debut work of
fiction is a short story collection
about political dissidents, actors
imprisoned during the Red Scare,
and others feeling disillusioned
with their country.
California by Edan Lepucki Lepucki’s
debut paints a picture of a very
real-seeming dystopian future, as
the novel’s two protagonists flee
what used to be Los Angeles, only
to find new dangers while seeking a community in which to raise
their child.
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and
His Years of Pilgrimage by
Haruki Murakami The author of
1Q84 has written another book
as puzzling as it is difficult to put
down. Tsukuru Tazaki has been
mysteriously abandoned by his
friends, so he visits them one by
one to discover why.
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An Untamed State by Roxanne
Gay This will be Gay’s first
novel, about the kidnapping of the
daughter of a very rich man in Haiti. If it’s anything like her fabulous
essays, which cover every corner
of the world of contemporary pop
culture, it’s sure to be a hit.
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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi The author of Mr. Fox
serves up an inventive retelling of
the Snow White story, centering
around Boy, a woman who marries
a widow and gives birth to a son,
Bird, whose dark skin reveals that
the family has been attempting to
“pass” as white.
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Thirty Girls by Susan Minot
A journalist travels to Africa, hoping to tell the story of
young girls like Esther, a Ugandan
teenager who has been captured
by the Lord’s Resistance Army, in
Minot’s latest novel.
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