CHOSEN AS A 2026 MUST-READ BOOK BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, NEW ARAB AND BBC CULTURE
'AWFULLY ADDICTIVE . . . PEOPLE, GOOD AND BAD, ARE GOING TO LOVE IT' GUARDIAN'SHARP, THOUGHTFUL AND CRACKLING WITH TENSION' PANDORA SYKES'A SPECTACULAR TRIUMPH' KHALED HOSSEINI'THRILLING. I'LL BE RECOMMENDING THIS BOOK TO EVERYONE' ANN PATCHETT'GORGEOUS AND POWERFUL' TOMMY ORANGE, NEW YORK TIMES'INCREDIBLY MOVING, STUNNINGLY INSIGHTFUL AND COMPLETELY ADDICTIVE' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS'UTTERLY ADDICTIVE . . . WILL HAVE EVERYONE TALKING' PAULA HAWKINS______________________________________________________________EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED . . . The Sharaf family is the…
Twelve women confront the mounting existential terrors of modernity--climate change, unbridled capitalism and greed, an entertainment industry that will go to surreal lengths to stay relevant--in this debut story collection set in a slightly off-kilter version of reality.A woman's limbs disappear into "the cloud" during wildfire-induced power outages. A lonely DoorDasher accidentally becomes the star of someone else's reality show, forced to resolve her fraught relationship with her immigrant mother for the narrative. Succumbing to a widely denied pandemic, a gymnastics coach must carry her heart around in a Mason jar, using her disability to become an influencer. Two chronically…
An instant USA Today Bestseller | A LibraryReads Bonus Pick | One of the most anticipated books of Summer, according to The New York Times, USA Today, NPR, Forbes, and many more | With starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and BookList
Doppelgängers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border: Sublimation is a thrilling and provocative debut for fans of Severance that asks what you'd sacrifice for a different life from award-winning author Isabel J. Kim.
“A mind bending thriller about personhood, homeland nostalgia, global migration, and all forms of alienation.” ―R. F. Kuang, #1 New York…
Can happiness be found at the bottom of a cereal bowl?
A neurodiverse woman working at a cereal bar discovers that sipping her customers’ leftover cereal milk allows her to enter alternate worlds in which she is finally happy in this amazing new work of “healing fiction.”
Beverly “Bev” Kitagawa struggles to connect with people around her. For the last decade, her vow to write a novel about the boy she romantically spurned in college—as an apology to him—has given her purpose. But with the ten-year anniversary approaching and little to show for it, Bev is beginning to feel hopeless. The only constant in her life is her job at the local cereal bar, Cows.
Then, one month before her twenty-eighth birthday, she takes a sip of milk from a customer’s bowl and temporarily slips into an alternate timeline of her life. There, she has everything that seems impossible in her actual existence. A bond with a customer she’s crushed on from afar. The writing career she’s always dreamed of.
So she tries it again. And again.
As she races to finish writing her real-life book, Bev dives deeper into the milkiverse. Is the next sip the key to the success, acceptance, forgiveness and love she’s spent a decade searching for?
