FP Staff List: What We're Reading This Week
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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
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
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
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
Wild Milk
by Sabrina Orah Mark (Dorothy)
"Totally spellbinding and mesmerizing."—Boston Globe
—Lanesha
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics)
"The scariest book I've ever read."—Carmen Maria Machado
—Lucia
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
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
Ten Myths About Israel
by Ilan Pappe (Verso)
"Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian."—John Pilger
—Sophie