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Percival Everett
James

Percival Everett’s latest novel James is a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, focusing on the enslaved Black side character Jim, who temporarily accompanies Huckleberry Finn on his adventures in the original story. In his novel, Everett gives Jim the opportunity to tell his own story.

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Nnedi Okorafor
Death of the author

Nnedi Okorafor’s newest novel, Death of the Author, is an africanfuturist story about a writer named Zelu, who suddenly becomes world-famous overnight after writing a book about robots and artificial intelligence.

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J.D. Kurtness
Aquariums

Aquariums – sitting perfectly at the intersection between a family chronicle and a pandemic tale, interwoven with the disastrous progression of the climate catastrophe – offers both indecisive and openminded readers alike a bridge between historical fiction and science fiction.

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Shubhangi Swarup
Latitudes of Longing

When a book can make you look up at the sky once in a while, pause, draw in your breath, and gaze at the rustling leaves of the tree outside your window, what does it mean? That it is not gripping enough, or rather I believe that it wants everything around you to grip you completely.

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