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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an author. Author FRIDAY BLACK + CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree Pen/Jean Stein Book Award Sadboi Satirist

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Book Cover for: The Bee Sting, Paul Murray

The Bee Sting

Paul Murray
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I felt so invested in it. I’m not from a small Irish town, but I love being made to feel so deeply entrenched in something really disparate from me. That’s the feeling I’m looking for when I’m reading a novel.

Paperback, 2024

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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“Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars is an uncanny, singular feat of literature. I’ve never read satire so bruising, so brolic, so tender and really, so pitch-perfect. It’s nuts brilliant. Just read it!” —Kiese Laymon,

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Tenth of December: Stories, George Saunders

Tenth of December: Stories

George Saunders
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Also new George Saunders in less than 2 weeks. I'm so hype. First collection since Tenth of December. When ToD came out I was in College, I saw George when he visited Albany and told him I'd applied to the MFA. I was sure i wasn't gonna get in, but he was nice about it.

Paperback, 2014

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Little Rot, Akwaeke Emezi

Little Rot

Akwaeke Emezi
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It’s a sort of fun, sexy, dangerous, dark thriller about corruption, told with beautiful style and a literary eye.

Hardcover, 2024

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Liberation Day: Stories, George Saunders

Liberation Day: Stories

George Saunders
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I'm really hype about Liberation Day coming out . And it's wild to imagine having a book come out within just a few months of thee George Saunders.

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: House of Cotton, Monica Brashears

House of Cotton

Monica Brashears
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This Wednesday April 5th come celebrate @magnoliasnmud and her awesome debut novel HOUSE OF COTTON. https://t.co/SOugBeH19n https://t.co/cqp340P1al

Hardcover, Large Print, 2023

$33.99$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bliss Montage: Stories, Ling Ma

Bliss Montage: Stories

Ling Ma
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When I'm reading a book I love it makes me wanna write, it makes me wanna teach, it's like electric. I'm feeling that reading Ling Ma's BLISS MONTAGE. I will be celebrating it with an annoying intensity in the following Tweets lol

Hardcover, 2022

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Sea Change, Gina Chung

Sea Change

Gina Chung
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@rgay SEA CHANGE by Gina Chung!

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong
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Anytime I see something about Ocean Vuong I'm reminded that, besides being a super nuclear talent, he has the best titled thing ever in "Night Sky with Exit Wounds"

Paperback, 2016

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Greenwood

Michael Christie
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I loved “Greenwood,” by Michael Christie. Really impressive on the line level. Extremely ambitious structurally. He swung for the fences and made contact for sure.

Paperback, 2021

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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