Fiction - Magical Realism

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for FictionOne of Granta's Best Young British Novelists From the prizewinning young writer of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces comes a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration. Fairy-tale romances end...

"[A] brilliant translation . . . Electrifying vividness animates every page." ―Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine "A formidable new English translation." ―The New Yorker "[A] masterful translation." ―The Washington Post Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece--the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering...

An extraordinary and startlingly original sequel to Ishmael "Enthralling, shocking, hope-filled, and utterly fearless, Daniel Quinn leads us deeper and deeper into the human heart, history, and spirit. In My Ishmael, Quinn strikes out into entirely new territory, posing questions that will rock you...

Three generations of fiercely strong and stubborn Mexican American women face grief head-on as they attempt to shed generational trauma and discover the true meaning of home in this "magical, haunting, and joyful" (Carolyn Huynh, author of The Fortunes of Jaded Women) novel that...

LA HISTORIA DE UNA FAMILIA ATENAZADA POR LA CULPA, LA TRAICIÓN Y LA LOCURA. UNA AUTORA ACLAMADA POR LA CRÍTICA INTERNACIONAL. «Una escritura tensa y compleja como la de Coetzee . --The New York Times «Escritura seca, concisa, directa, de una fuerza expresiva extraordinaria....

From the acclaimed author of Vagabonds! an audacious and eye-opening exploration of cross-generational queer life in Nigeria. What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom? Is freedom for everyone? In Necessary Fiction, Eloghosa Osunde poses these provocative questions and many more...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR "I want to take the fact that I'm here seriously, because it's serious. That lesson is so much harder than I thought." - from Necessary Fiction In Eloghosa Osunde's powerful novel, Lagos, Nigeria is the...

Set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the 1990s and early 2000s, Neon Steel is acclaimed writer Jennifer Maritza McCauley's love letter to millennial nerd culture. Anime fans, vampires, indie rappers, robots, comic book fans, and thrill seekers find their way through the Steel City's neighborhoods...

In this haunting family saga, a young woman must delve into her country star mother's music to break a curse that has plagued the women in her family for generations--before her time runs out. On the morning of Rhea's eighteenth birthday, she makes a...

"The perfect cozy witchy read" ★★★★★ reader reviewBeing a receptionist at her family's magical inn for witches is not Luna's true calling. But she's stuck doing her duty until she comes up with the perfect escape: a trip to rescue Elias, the magician who...

Named a BEST BOOK OF 2021 by the New York Times, NPR, the New York Public Library, Audible, Tor.com, Book Riot, Library Journal, and Kirkus!Longlisted for the 2022 PEN Open Book AwardRiveting...[A] tender, ferocious book.--New York TimesBeautifully fantastical.--NPRMasterful.--Chicago TribuneOne October morning, Laina gets the...

From the author of This Impossible Brightness comes a heartrending trek through grief, hope, and the Alaskan wilderness as a young woman seeks the truth that will heal her. Eila Jacobsen is adrift, reeling from her father's recent death and still suffering from the...

Across the wide world of the Tingleverse, one thing is clear: love is real. But, for many buckaroos, their preferred kind of love has nothing to do with sex. Whether asexual or just not feeling it at the moment, this collection of completely sexless...

Winner of the 2024 St. Lawrence Book Award Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself is a collection of ten playfully strange and unsettling stories, some realistic and some surreal. The characters in these pages feel alienated: from their communities and relationships,...

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell...

This profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende brings to life a country ruled with an iron fist--and the men and women who dare to challenge it.Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with....

Old flames ignite and the past never truly dies in a haunting new romance from USA Today bestselling author Nadine Gonzalez.Author Jules Levy Jones is running--from her past, from her grief, and from the only man who ever really sparked her interest. Drawn to...

In the middle of the night, Daniel and his mother flee their burning home in Mississippi for a bus bound to Chicago. There they find brief peace and safety at his grandparents' house. But Daniel's mother cannot resist the siren call of a tumultuous...

For fans of Ashley Poston and The Love of My Afterlife comes a clever and swoony novel about an aspiring New York lifestyle influencer who gets trapped in her own "day in the life" video, with only a mysterious stranger to help her break...

Late one Christmas Eve, a man's mind is racing with childhood memories. Restless, he decides to check the Christmas Tree one more time before his wife and two children awaken in the morning. But as he quietly walks down the hall, he hears a...