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Inside the Mirror

A Novel

by Parul Kapur ...

Series series AWP Prize for the Novel
Winner of the AWP Prize for the NovelWinner of the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book AwardWinner of the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year AwardLonglisted for the Center for Fiction's 2024 First Novel PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 New American Voices AwardHonorable Mention for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Literary FictionFin... ... Read more

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Winner of the AWP Prize for the NovelWinner of the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book AwardWinner of the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year AwardLonglisted for the Center for Fiction's 2024 First Novel PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 New American Voices AwardHonorable Mention for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Literary FictionFin...
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Inside the Mirror

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In 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women’s education who assumes the right to choose his daughters’ vocations. A talented painter drawn to the city’s dynamic new modern-art movement, Jaya is driven by her desire to express both the pain and extraordinary force of life of a nation rising from the devastation of British rule. Her twin sister ... Read more

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In 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women’s education who assumes the right to choose his daughters’ vocations. A talented painter drawn to the city’s dynamic new modern-art movement, Jaya is driven by her desire to express both the pain and extraordinary force of life of a nation rising from the devastation of British rule. Her twin sister
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Ploughshares Fall 2023

by Ladette Randolph, Anthony David, Parul Kapur, John Keeble, Diane Hinton Perry, Austin Woerner, Nafis Shafizadeh, Wiam El-Tamami, Jamie Lyn Smith, Jim Shepard ...

The Fall 2023 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2023 Issue, edited by Ladette ... Read more

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The Fall 2023 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2023 Issue, edited by Ladette
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An Atlas of Impossible Longing

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by Anuradha Roy ...

“This is why we read fiction at all” raves the Washington Post: Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, “gorgeous, sweeping novel” (Ms Magazine) about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an award-winning writer who richly deserves her international acclaim.On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a ... Read more

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“This is why we read fiction at all” raves the Washington Post: Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, “gorgeous, sweeping novel” (Ms Magazine) about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an award-winning writer who richly deserves her international acclaim.On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a
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The Best American Short Stories 2022

by Heidi Pitlor, Andrew Sean Greer ...

Series series Best American
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year. ... Read more

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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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Difficult Daughters

by Manju Kapur ...

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.' Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and ... Read more

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Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.' Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and
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Letter to a Stranger

Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us

Edited by Colleen Kinder ...

“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”—Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceSixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable ... Read more

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“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”—Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceSixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable
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House of Snow

An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal

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A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people.'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better than House of Snow' Daily Telegraph'One of the finest books I have read this year' Nudge Books'A ... Read more

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A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people.'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better than House of Snow' Daily Telegraph'One of the finest books I have read this year' Nudge Books'A
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My Life with Bob

Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

by Pamela Paul ...

"An engaging and . . . funny memoir. . . . A delightfully gushing love letter to books" by the former editor of The New York Times Book Review ( Washington Post).People Pick • O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now • Vanity Fair Hot Type • Glamour New Book You're Guaranteed to Love This Summer • LitHub.com Best Book about Books • Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This Summer • Seattle Times Book for Summer. ... Read more

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"An engaging and . . . funny memoir. . . . A delightfully gushing love letter to books" by the former editor of The New York Times Book Review ( Washington Post).People Pick • O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now • Vanity Fair Hot Type • Glamour New Book You're Guaranteed to Love This Summer • LitHub.com Best Book about Books • Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This Summer • Seattle Times Book for Summer.
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The Artist of Disappearance

Three Novellas

by Anita Desai ...

Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction"The excellent strength [the novellas] share is a gracefulness and dreamlike sonority, reminiscent of writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and W.G. Sebald, wherein strange evolutions of solitary lives are the rule, and readers are held by the stately, hypnotic dignity of the voice that tells them." – San Francisco ChronicleSet in modern India, these three ... Read more

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Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction"The excellent strength [the novellas] share is a gracefulness and dreamlike sonority, reminiscent of writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and W.G. Sebald, wherein strange evolutions of solitary lives are the rule, and readers are held by the stately, hypnotic dignity of the voice that tells them." – San Francisco ChronicleSet in modern India, these three
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The Best American Essays 2018

by Hilton Als ...

Series series The Best American Series
The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" ( New York Times) to the task."The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great ... Read more

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The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" ( New York Times) to the task."The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great
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Travelers' Tales India

True Stories

by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger ...

Series series Travelers' Tales Guides
India is among the most difficult-and most rewarding-of places to travel. Some have said India stands for "I’ll Never Do It Again." Many more are drawn back time after time because India is the best show on earth, the best bazaar of human experiences that can be visited in a lifetime. India dissolves ideas about what it means to be alive, and its people give new meaning to compassion, perseverance ... Read more

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India is among the most difficult-and most rewarding-of places to travel. Some have said India stands for "I’ll Never Do It Again." Many more are drawn back time after time because India is the best show on earth, the best bazaar of human experiences that can be visited in a lifetime. India dissolves ideas about what it means to be alive, and its people give new meaning to compassion, perseverance
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