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On the Calculation of Volume I
Solvej Balle · 2025
january
Cold Enough for Snow
Jessica Au · 2022
I Remain in Darkness
Annie Ernaux · 2019
An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency.<br/>I Remain in Darkness recounts Ernaux’s attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer’s disease, and then,<br/>when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing<br/>a beloved parent. I Remain in Darkness is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power and her<br/>sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life's particular music.
february
Okay Days
Mustard, Jenny · 2023
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 2019
<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>
april
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson · 2021
june
Transit: A Novel (Outline Trilogy, 2)
Rachel Cusk · 2017
september
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney · 2022
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
Anne de Marcken · 2024
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lost…and then what happens? The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, our undead narrator notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. She has forgotten even her name, but she remembers with unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known — where she loved and was loved. She heads west and into mind-boggling adventures, carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest. The joint winner of The Novel Prize, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is a sharp and funny tale for our dispossessed times. ‘Astounding, inventive, and utterly original, Anne de Marcken has written a freakish classic with wisdom to spare about life, death, and the eerily vast space between. I was absolute putty in this book’s hands.’ — Alexandra Kleeman ‘Anne de Marcken must write in a charmed ink that first erases the line between the living and the dead, and then — with prose as elegant as it is spooked — tells the story of what lies underneath. I have never read anything like this brilliant debut.’ — Sabrina Orah Mark
december
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
olga tokarczuk · 2019
