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Alana Saab's debut novel, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me, explores a 27-year-old Norma's journey through her diagnosis of major depressive disorder, anxiety, and derealisation/depersonalization disorder along with navigating being a lesbian, being in love, being 27. Blending intense darkness with definitions, humor, a story within a story, academia, and astrology, Saab immerses the reader in a resonating narrative that is affecting and relatable in equal measure.
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl is Andrea Lawlor's debut novel. It is quite the book. I have never read anything like it.
Follow the descendants of two sisters, whose lives take different paths, through eras of great turmoil in Ghana and the US. Â Â
A look into the psyche and thought process of a teen boy with Autism. He goes on an adventure to solve a mystery but solves a much larger one.
A modern retelling of Kafka’s Metamorphosis exploring identity through race in Lagos, Nigeria after a black man wakes up as a white man.Â
A funny, smart glimpse into the melange of cultures residing within London and the young people growing up among them.