Translated from the Japanese by David Boyd & Lucy North | Shibata both lies and rebels when she announces her pregnancy at the office. This vibrant tale of a woman’s fictitious pregnancy offers a charming social commentary on modern isolation and how community can transform an individual’s self-worth.

Just released from prison after a 20-year sentence, Carlotta spends the Fourth of July weekend marveling at, and recoiling from, a gentrified Brooklyn, reconnecting with her past while struggling to assert her present as a proud, fiercely independent trans woman.

On a farm in rural Ireland, a young girl is cared for with tenderness by relatives whose attentiveness suggests something left unsaid. In 92 concise and beautiful pages we see the landscape of a family developed over one affecting summer.

Careful research and deep empathy combine in this portrait of the unforgettable horse trainer Sonia. The life story you didn't know you needed, told in a spare, matter-of-fact narration that cannot conceal the passion and tenacity of a life hard-lived and success hard-won.

Translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey | We encounter Arvid Jansen in a bleak period after his divorce and the death of his parents in a tragic ferry accident. He spends his time drinking, pursuing various women, and driving around in his Mazda. This book is a rare combination of melancholy and compelling.

A volcano pops up in the Central Park reservoir and starts growing. An eight-year-old boy in Mexico City is transported 500 years into the past. A Nigerian scholar in Tokyo studies a folktale about a woman of fire who destroys an entire village. And a nomadic farmer in Mongolia is stung by a bee, transforming him into a green mist that aspires to connect every living thing to its consciousness.

In the East Village of the early 90s, drugs, murder, organized crime, and big real estate weave a mystery that can only be solved by a bass player in search of his stolen instrument.

A meditation on art that meticulously builds a fictional painter's world and critical legacy, only to playfully yet ruthlessly tear it all down. This tale of two art historical frenemies traces an apocalyptic obsession that circumscribes every waking moment of their lives.

Romance readers, satire lovers, and critics of academia will be swept into the burning flames of passion by this account of a seasoned English professor and her growing obsession with Vladimir, the new young professor on campus.

Translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem | Mushrooms, witches, mountains, and ghosts rhythmically transform this narrative, leaving bits of earth and magic on every page. It is a folkloric story of how natural events and human drama interweave from the past to the present in a Pyrenees mountain community.