Books by Aria Aber
“I’ve heard a lot of people raving about Good Girl by Aria Aber, in which 19-year-old Nila—born in Germany to Afghan parents—attends raves, experiments with art, and grapples with her complicated cultural identity. “I knew that I wanted to write a character like her, who is first of all a wayward Afghan woman, and then someone who can shapeshift and code switch, who can go into different rooms and observe them,” Aber has explained. “I was interested in the innocence but also the slipperiness that youth allows you to inhabit, enact and perform, but that’s also often a little dangerous.”” Read more...
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Interviews where books by Aria Aber were recommended
Notable Novels of Spring 2025, recommended by Cal Flyn
Our seasonal round-up of notable new releases in fiction: Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn offers an overview of the spring 2025 novels you should have on your literary radar: new work from Nobel laureates, a buzzy new debut set in Berlin, and a conceptually thrilling Scandinavian sci-fi septology.
