International Flights

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Bangkok Wakes to Rain

By Pitchaya Sudbanthad

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Sudbanthad writes in rich, astonishing, sublimely detailed prose while also managing to convey a sweeping, faceted sense of time. This tenderhearted wonder of a novel moves between characters and epochs—as though through osmosis—and offers a textured portrait of the city of Bangkok. An intersubjective gem.

**FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION’S 2019 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE**
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Everything Inside

By Edwige Danticat

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The talented and highly celebrated author of Claire of the Sea Light hits shelves again, this time with her first collection of short stories since the publication of 1995’s Krik? Krak! Here, Danticat’s eye and ear for subtle ways that people tell their hearts carry readers through eight stories of love, loss and growth, with profound emotion and refined storytelling. A great gift for fans of Junot Diaz and Jamaica Kincaid.

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Find Me

By Andre Aciman

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Call Me By Your Name: the title, the very phrase, sounds so lovely, so aching, speaking to an entire generation of readers who yearn for affection and connection. In Find Me, Aciman revisits his iconic characters, years in the future, still traveling the world, still trying to find whatever might complete them. This is love, warts and all, complicated and passionate. Do you know somebody who keeps all their old love letters? You know who this book is for.
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Normal People

By Sally Rooney

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O, the theater of first love! Rooney deftly renders intimacy. We follow the lives of Connell and Marianne as they negotiate the enduring question of their bond. Subtle characterization and internal and interpersonal dialogues composed with exacting restraint build toward, and pivot upon, moments of keen & lyric psychological insight. Rooney might also be the preeminent writer of gesture—she can make a hand placed just-so make you cry. #tenderhands #cryhands

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Out of Darkness, Shining Light

By Petina Gappah

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What’s harder for: writing novels, or being a lawyer specializing in international trade and investment? Seriously, how impressive is it when you find out about an author whose day job makes you go “whoa?” Gappah takes this eye for detail and people and channels it into all her books, this one in particular, a historical novel about the African explores carrying the body of Dr. Livingston. Full of unforgettable struggle and redemption, Out of Darkness, Shining Light is for fans of historical fiction that sizzles with reality.
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The Sweetest Fruits

By Monique Truong

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In The Sweetest Fruits, three women paint a nuanced portrait of the globe trotting Greek-Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn. From the author who brought us The Book of Salt, this novel substantiates the idea that the lives of writers can often best be understood through the eyes of those who nurtured them and made their work possible.

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