The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

by Deesha Philyaw

🏆 Winner of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award
🏆 Winner of the 2020 Story Prize
🏆 Winner of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize, Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
✩ Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction

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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

by Deesha Philyaw

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The Taste of Apples
by Huang Chun-ming

Which Super Little Dead Girl™ Are You? Take Our Quiz and Find Out!
by Nino Cipri

American Salvage
by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan
by Fran Martin (translator)

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by Edith Sollohub

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by Rachael K. Jones