FP Staff List: What We're Reading This Week Scroll to see what the FP staff has been reading this week! A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)"Let the world take note of this dazzling and accomplished fantasy. Sofia Samatar's debut novel is both exhilarating epic adventure and loving invocation of what it means to live through story, poetry, language. She writes like the heir of Ursula K. Le Guin and Gene Wolfe."—Kelly Link—Rachel Order now from Bookshop.org The Power by Naomi Alderman (Back Bay Books)"Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything."—Margaret Atwood—Lauren Order from Bookshop.org Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun Harrison (North Atlantic Books)“This modern classic relishes in collapsing conventional and clichéd orthodoxies. As formative as Harrison’s proclamations are, it is Harrison’s pacing that gives the book the lingering feeling of the most sensual whisper.”—Kiese Laymon—Ozichi Order from Bookshop.org Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (Riverhead)"One of the year's most provocative and deeply felt first novels...a searing portrait of the immigrant experience."—Vanity Fair—Isla Order from Bookshop.org Wild Milk by Sabrina Orah Mark (Dorothy)"Totally spellbinding and mesmerizing."—Boston Globe—Lanesha Order now from Bookshop.org The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics)"The scariest book I've ever read."—Carmen Maria Machado—Lucia Order from Bookshop.org Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown (AK Press)“Pleasure Activism is an invitation to know ourselves and be in conversation with the desire of our lustful imaginations... It makes our personal liberation irresistible.”—Jasmine Burnett—Jisu Order from Bookshop.org Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker (Grove Atlantic)"[A] complex, high-speed, intensely intellectual, intensely offensive, post-modernist, pained and painful, punk, fantastic, fictional construct and elaborate tattoo of a novel."—New York Times—Nick Order from Bookshop.org Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe (Verso)"Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian."—John Pilger—Sophie Order now from Bookshop.org Lucia BrownSeptember 3, 2021 Facebook0 Twitter Pinterest0 0 Likes