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“During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor. By…
“A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking commuters struggling…
“The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador’s violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up…
“An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition, and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on…
“Heavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness seeks to address the systemic ways in which the moral panic around obesity impacts fat mothers and fat children. Taking a life-…
“Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines’ present and America’s past by the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealer’s…
“Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend’s wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling…
“Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience…
“Her Body and Other Parties presents a collection of short stories about the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband’s…
“The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family’s move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.”