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Celebrated brain surgeon Thomas Eapen hasa ben sitting on his porch, talking to dead relatives. At least that is the story his wife, Kamala, prone to exaggeration, tells their daughter, Amina, a photographer living in Seattle. Reluctantly, Amina returns home and finds a situation that is far more complicated than her mother let on, with roots in a trip the family, including Amina's rebellious brother Akhil, took to India 20 years earlier.

A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. “By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment...

“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird...

Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author Nathan Englander will be joined by author Mira Jacob ( The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing) to discuss his new, "many-splendored" ( The New York Times) novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, a powerful, riveting story exploring the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lives of a prisoner in a secret cell and the soldier who watched over him for a dozen years.

Was ist der Stoff, der die Welt zusammenhält? In einer anderen Welt, zu einer anderen Zeit. Proto schuftet unter Tage in den Bergwerken, um das kostbare Material zu Tage zu fördern, aus dem einfach alles hergestellt wird: Sinnscheiße. Bis er eines Tages der Frau begegnet, die sein Leben verändert - indem sie die entscheidende Frage stellt: "Der ganze Planet besteht aus Sinnscheiße. Warum muss man etwas mühsam in der Tiefe suchen, was auf der Oberfläche in rauen Mengen herumliegt?"

USA TODAY BESTSELLER A liberatory anthology of twenty-seven writers—a community in book form—charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty, curated by Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones. Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith’s conversations in the wake of the...