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and she held this knowledge inside her like a splinter, something she was careful not to touch.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
She wasn’t in Mallard anymore, but somehow, the town wouldn’t leave her.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
In the spring, before I began teaching and lost the capacity to read anything more robust than a play (no offense to plays), I read Isabel Waidner’s second novel, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility , whose eponymous protagonist has just won a prestigious literary prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. And yet the trophy itself eludes him: neon... See more
The Paris Review • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
he possessed nothing but bones and a chain and a wish to touch the truth. This longing for awareness he called the Practice.
Sofia Samatar • The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
a prelude to the end.
Elif Shafak • The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel
Her dreadlocks are piled atop her head, so they don’t sweep the ground.
Oyinkan Braithwaite • My Sister, the Serial Killer: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Even then Mia had a sense of what she was starting; a hot smell pricked her nostrils, like the first wisp of smoke from a far-off blaze.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
While I have done deep dives in the work of Samuel Delaney, Ursula Le Guin, and others,