Noir / Mystery
Blurring the line between reality and delusion, these untraditional mysteries elevate the form to the level of hallucination.
This fast-paced, kaleidoscopic collection spans dystopian visions, investigations into suspicious suicides, abandoned screenplays, hard-boiled meditations on a missing mother, and the tale of a captive spy.
This collection contains:
Jakarta by Rodrigo Márquez Tizano, translated by Thomas Bunstead: In this engrossing novel of ruin and reconstruction, a man and his lover search for closure while a virulent plague hastens disaster in the world around them.
Miniatures by Norah Labiner: An intensely evocative novel that follows Fern, a newly-hired live-in housekeeper who discovers a controversial bundle of hidden letters, unearthing answers to the first wife of her employer’s suicide and Fern's own past.
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau: Blending digital fever dream and hard-boiled noir in bursts of claustrophobic prose, pink mountain on locust island follows a teenager and her maybe-boyfriend into the seedy corners of the art world.
Ramifications by Daniel Saldaña París, translated by Christina MacSweeney: A neurotic young man, self-confined to his bed, reflects on the turning point of his childhood: his mother’s disappearance, in this emotionally rich anti-coming-of-age novel that wrestles with the inherited privileges and atrocities of masculinity..
Reel Bay by Jana Larson: Equal parts memoir, mystery, reclaimed screenplay, and travelogue, Reel Bay charts Jana Larson’s unusual journey toward understanding another woman's life.
Submergence by J.M. Ledgard: A love story, a spy story, and a vivid portrayal of Africa and the secret depths of the sea.
Blurring the line between reality and delusion, these untraditional mysteries elevate the form to the level of hallucination.
This fast-paced, kaleidoscopic collection spans dystopian visions, investigations into suspicious suicides, abandoned screenplays, hard-boiled meditations on a missing mother, and the tale of a captive spy.
This collection contains:
Jakarta by Rodrigo Márquez Tizano, translated by Thomas Bunstead: In this engrossing novel of ruin and reconstruction, a man and his lover search for closure while a virulent plague hastens disaster in the world around them.
Miniatures by Norah Labiner: An intensely evocative novel that follows Fern, a newly-hired live-in housekeeper who discovers a controversial bundle of hidden letters, unearthing answers to the first wife of her employer’s suicide and Fern's own past.
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau: Blending digital fever dream and hard-boiled noir in bursts of claustrophobic prose, pink mountain on locust island follows a teenager and her maybe-boyfriend into the seedy corners of the art world.
Ramifications by Daniel Saldaña París, translated by Christina MacSweeney: A neurotic young man, self-confined to his bed, reflects on the turning point of his childhood: his mother’s disappearance, in this emotionally rich anti-coming-of-age novel that wrestles with the inherited privileges and atrocities of masculinity..
Reel Bay by Jana Larson: Equal parts memoir, mystery, reclaimed screenplay, and travelogue, Reel Bay charts Jana Larson’s unusual journey toward understanding another woman's life.
Submergence by J.M. Ledgard: A love story, a spy story, and a vivid portrayal of Africa and the secret depths of the sea.
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Blurring the line between reality and delusion, these untraditional mysteries elevate the form to the level of hallucination.
This fast-paced, kaleidoscopic collection spans dystopian visions, investigations into suspicious suicides, abandoned screenplays, hard-boiled meditations on a missing mother, and the tale of a captive spy.
This collection contains:
Jakarta by Rodrigo Márquez Tizano, translated by Thomas Bunstead: In this engrossing novel of ruin and reconstruction, a man and his lover search for closure while a virulent plague hastens disaster in the world around them.
Miniatures by Norah Labiner: An intensely evocative novel that follows Fern, a newly-hired live-in housekeeper who discovers a controversial bundle of hidden letters, unearthing answers to the first wife of her employer’s suicide and Fern's own past.
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau: Blending digital fever dream and hard-boiled noir in bursts of claustrophobic prose, pink mountain on locust island follows a teenager and her maybe-boyfriend into the seedy corners of the art world.
Ramifications by Daniel Saldaña París, translated by Christina MacSweeney: A neurotic young man, self-confined to his bed, reflects on the turning point of his childhood: his mother’s disappearance, in this emotionally rich anti-coming-of-age novel that wrestles with the inherited privileges and atrocities of masculinity..
Reel Bay by Jana Larson: Equal parts memoir, mystery, reclaimed screenplay, and travelogue, Reel Bay charts Jana Larson’s unusual journey toward understanding another woman's life.
Submergence by J.M. Ledgard: A love story, a spy story, and a vivid portrayal of Africa and the secret depths of the sea.
