Debut Books

The Surrender of Man – Naomi Falk

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How do you articulate with the limited construct of language something as rich and malleable as an emotional response to art?

Sad Tiger – Neige Sinno

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The book is organized around the person of Sinno’s stepfather. She renders his presence and domination as suffocating. I shudder to acknowledge: that is not a metaphor.

When The Horses – Mary Helen Callier

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In this collection, light is less revealing than it is blinding, distortive and receding.

Howling Women – Shelby Hinte

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Shelby Hinte’s debut novel HOWLING WOMEN investigates curiosity over blame, looking at the story beneath action.

An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance – Diana Oropeza

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Oropeza coaxes you to lean in closer, embrace the precarity of invisibility, death, and all other forms of disappearance

Book of Potions – Lauren K. Watel

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BOOK OF POTIONS begins by defining a new literary form: “potion = poem + fiction.”

Sillyboy – Peter Vack; The Champ is Here – Nathan Dragon

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Freaks rarely please everyone, but they are beloved by someone.

Alternative Facts – Emily Greenberg

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Greenberg depicts these figures with sympathy, at times poignancy, yet never with forgiveness.

From Savagery – Alejandra Banca

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FROM SAVAGERY, the debut work of fiction by Alejandra Banca, beautifully translated by Katie Brown . . . gives a voice to a new generation of Venezuelan migrants creating life abroad.

Thanks for This Riot – Janelle Bassett

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Connections, too often, mean relinquishing control, and none of the women in THANKS FOR THIS RIOT have enough to spare.