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A New York Times Notable Book of 2023A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NPR, The Guardian Author Pick, and TodayLonglisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize“A heart-rending book, but also a beautiful celebration of ‘the glorious pleasure of erecting something new, ’ be it a work of art or a human connection.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom “one of the finest and bravest ...

In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing and singular" honesty (Rumaan Alam) with two determined, unforgettable female voices.Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia, Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean, and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah, who's sought a clean break from her rural childhood. In Leah's urban life with her young family, she's revealed ...

Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by * NPR * Esquire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Real Simple * BBC * PopSugar * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub"A gripping, astute, and deeply humane political thriller." -The Boston Globe "Mesmerizing [and] uncannily prescient."-Los Angeles TimesA taut, timely novel about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down, from the award-winning author of Ways...

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Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by * NPR * Esquire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Real Simple * BBC * PopSugar * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub"A gripping, astute, and deeply humane political thriller." -The Boston Globe "Mesmerizing [and] uncannily prescient."-Los Angeles TimesA taut, timely novel about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down, from the award-winning author of Ways...

È l'ora di pranzo in un piccolo parco di Copacabana. Una donna rotondetta con i capelli grigi si ferma sotto un mandorlo. In mano ha una valigia e in bocca un sigaro. Sale su un ramo dell'albero e lentamente si inerpica fino in cima. Questa è l'ultima volta che Beatriz Yagoda, famosa scrittrice brasiliana, è stata vista. Emma Neufeld, la sua traduttrice americana, resta allibita a questa notizia: la scena della scomparsa ricorda troppo da vici...

Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears the news and, against the wishes of her boyfriend and Beatriz's two grown children, flies immediately to Brazil. There, in the sticky, sugary heat of Rio, Emma and her author's children conspire to solve the mystery of Y...

A famous Brazilian novelist has disappeared. Beatriz Yagoda was last seen climbing into an almond tree, puffing on a cigar and holding a suitcase. She's since vanished. A madcap international romp blending mystery, romance and humour.

Explores several notions of translation through two sequences of poems. In the first sequence, the author addresses the figure and the words of a writer she has translated, Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector. She also looks at the connections between language, translation, and the hosting of visitors, including her newborn son.

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In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. Novey writes of the expanding prison complex that was once a field and imagines what's next for the civilians who enter and exit it each day.

Richly metaphorical debut examines what it means to inhabit a world of "losses that outnumber us.