Olufunke Grace Bankole’s debut novel The Edge of Water opens with a prophecy: “A storm is coming.” The order of things, the Iyanifa tells us, will be disrupted by a soul who defies her fate. What follows is the story of three generations of Nigerian and Nigerian American women: Esther, who... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-02-04 12:00:00 UTC ]
Good Girl—the debut novel by award-winning poet Aria Aber—follows nineteen-year-old Nila as she becomes charmed in a Berlin club and falls manically in love with Marlowe, an older brooding American writer. Raised by Afghan refugees, Nila’s childhood remains haunted by the shadows of exile while... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-01-24 12:00:00 UTC ]
“Those people. My whole existence, neatly packed into one demonstrative adjective,” says Nila, the protagonist of Aria Aber’s pulsing debut novel Good Girl. Nila was born in Berlin, “inside its ghetto-heart, as a small, wide-eyed rat, in the months after reunification.” As these quotations show,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-16 09:56:24 UTC ]
A debut novel about an Afghan German party girl in Berlin shows that there are plenty of ways to dramatize the immigrant experience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2025-01-15 14:30:00 UTC ]
Aria Aber’s exciting debut novel finds the daughter of an Afghan refugee sidestepping disapproval and racism as she dives into Berlin’s nightworld. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-01-13 10:00:16 UTC ]
Omar Khalifah’s debut novel resists the demand placed on those who have experienced historical atrocities to tell their stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2024-12-05 16:22:00 UTC ]
‘This set of characters are simultaneously medieval kings and modern aristocrats.’ Allen Bratton on adapting the Henriad and his debut novel Henry Henry. The post Podcast | Allen Bratton appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2024-11-29 14:09:08 UTC ]
Bestselling author who enjoyed overnight success with her debut novel A Woman of SubstanceIt was Graham Greene who inadvertently launched Barbara Taylor Bradford, who has died aged 91, on the road that would lead, in 2003, to her induction into the Writers Hall of Fame of America, alongside Mark... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-25 16:52:30 UTC ]
Hogarth signs a debut novel by Woody Brown, the first nonspeaking graduate of UCLA, and Atria takes a steamy sports romance trilogy by Melanie Iglesias Perez. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
Daniel M. Lavery’s debut novel collects vignettes from inside the Biedermeier, a second-rate, rapidly waning establishment in midcentury New York City. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-10-12 09:00:34 UTC ]
In Clement Goldberg’s madcap and campy debut novel, cats, plants, alien intelligences, and a group of human misfits conspire to make us all freer and more joyfully connected. New Mistakes offers a hilarious, surreal, and sexy new vision of queer collectivity—one that involves the living earth... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-10-02 11:00:00 UTC ]
Lauren Elkin’s debut novel Scaffolding traces the parallel lives of two psychoanalysts living in the same Belleville apartment 50 years apart. In 1972, Florence and her new husband, Henry, settle into their new home. But as Florence delves deeper into her intellectual pursuits, she begins to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2024-09-26 12:00:00 UTC ]
FSG signs a debut novel by the inaugural recipient of the FSG Writer’s Fellowship, Tami Hoag re-ups at Dutton, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Jacquie Walters' debut, 'Dearest,' is a horror novel about new motherhood, including the demands of a breastfeeding infant, as well as how postpartum hormones affect a woman's psyche. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-09-16 10:00:29 UTC ]
At the beginning of Khuê Phạm’s debut novel Brothers and Ghosts, translated by Charles Hawley and Daryl Lindsey, the narrator makes a confession: “I don’t know how to pronounce my own name.” It’s not something you hear often and something unimaginable for many. But for Kiều, the young Vietnamese... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-09-10 11:00:00 UTC ]
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Sky Daddy by Kate Folk, which will be published by Random House on April 08, 2025. You can pre-order your copy here. Cross the jet bridge with Linda, a frequent flyer with a dangerous obsession, in this hilarious and provocative debut novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-09-05 11:03:00 UTC ]
Ledia Xhoga’s debut novel Misinterpretation opens with the unnamed narrator, a translator from Albania, accepting an assignment to interpret for a Kosovar torture survivor named Alfred. Elements of Alfred’s story map onto her own family’s experience, and the narrator becomes all-consumed by his... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-09-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
In the first drafts of my debut novel Medusa, I was consumed by the idea of what it meant to be a monster in a story you didn’t control. Medusa is one of the most recognizable monsters of Greek mythology, with the writhing mass of snakes for hair and the turning people to stone with […] The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-08-12 11:05:00 UTC ]
In the Blink of an Eye was praised at the Theakston Old Peculier crime writing festival as ‘changing the way we think about policing forever’A “boundary-pushing take on the police procedural” which features a human detective working with an AI sleuth in order to solve a missing persons case has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-07-19 16:29:44 UTC ]
Set among the fevered residents of a remote Australian town, Ruby Todd’s debut novel considers how grief can draw people to extreme beliefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-16 09:00:27 UTC ]