Fiction - Absurdist

For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother's surprise stash of rare pills, or suffer the consequences. Arvy Keening is just trying to get through...

For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother's surprise stash of rare pills, or suffer the consequences. Arvy Keening is just trying to get through...

The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching...

Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation A mind-bending and mysterious comedy from the author of Life A User's Manual. A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all...

The twenty-first-century heir to Kurt Vonnegut, Kanan Gill's debut, Acts of God, is a madcap futuristic romp that dares to question the meaning of existence--with equal parts reverence and hilarity.Private detective P. Manjunath thinks like fire and works like dust as he sets out...

The twenty-first-century heir to Kurt Vonnegut, Kanan Gill's debut, Acts of God, is a madcap futuristic romp that dares to question the meaning of existence--with equal parts reverence and hilarity.Private detective P. Manjunath thinks like fire and works like dust as he sets out...

From "one of the most rigorous and serious--and anachronistic--novelists working today" (The Washington Post) comes a raucous new tale plumbing the depths of ego and ardor. In a remote country in Europe, Gerard Desacroux IV, petty tyrant and French nationalist, wants nothing more than...

A darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award-winning author Patrick Cottrell. And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?...I would say I was Dan Moran, a Korean adoptee, single, approaching forty, once plain-in-appearance as...

Original, experimental, and charmingly nonsensical, Lewis Carroll's Alice'​s Adventures in Wonderland follows seven-year-old Alice down a rabbit hole and into the topsy-turvy dream world of Wonderland. In this fantastical place, food can shrink you to the size of a mouse, or turn you into...

"Wry, wise, and full of heart. Amato's collection is a master class in short story fiction." -Niamh McAnally, author of Following SunshineWhen ordinary lives meet extraordinary moments, magic happens.Take a journey through An Author's Dozen where vivid characters share their compelling adventures. Each of...

"A surreal existential caper exploring identity and performance, midlife purpose and regret, and the difficulty of finding--and escaping--yourself. Sly, absurd and poignant, it is a triumph of narrative voice." --The Spectator (UK) Two men meet in an apartment in London. They are strangers to...

From one of the most acclaimed masters of the short story form whom the New York Times calls "Genius," a darkly funny collection of stories explores themes of identity, reality, and meaning. Etgar Keret is the world's most famous living Israeli writer, known for...

From one of the preeminent literary voices in Israel comes a darkly funny collection of surrealist stories exploring the increasingly complex relationship between humans and technology. Set in our world, alternate realities, distant futures, and the immortal realm, the stories in Autocorrect traverse the...

Tony isn't afraid of the dark. In fact, he's drawn to the nighttime because he believes that the glowing moon is his father. Baby in the Night is a quietly moving novel that follows our narrator, Tony Volcano Ventura, through his childhood as he...

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was...

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was...

"There is so much at play in this wondrous novel. Vi, struggling to place herself in any context that makes sense within the world, earnestly leads us into a wild experiment, to turn a blob into the man of her dreams, and I was...

Author: Maggie SuPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70dISBN: 9780063358676About the AuthorSu, Maggie: - Maggie Su is a writer and editor. She received a PhD in fiction from University of Cincinnati and an MFA from Indiana University. Her...

"Burnside is the coolest weird fever dream you'll ever have while awake. [...] This incantatory tale of two young women caught up in an intrigue in a dusty CA town may well prove a signature chronicle of our American endtimes." --Chang-rae Lee, author of...

By the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Author of On Earth As It Is BeneathEdgar Wilson has a gruesome job, one he is entirely unsentimental about--he cleans up roadkill in rural Brazil. But one day vultures are circling in the woods, and he can't not...