by Joyce Carol Oates (2014)
A collection of thirteen spellbinding stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.
Richard Ford
Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment.
Arundhati Roy
In which Annie gives it those ones is a celebrated work by Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
Nicole Krauss
Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing that she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man named Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives.
Chinua Achebe
Collected poems is a celebrated work by Chinua Achebe (Man Booker International Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.