In pre-war Alexandria, a writer deals with the lingering effects of a passionate affair, only to have his memories reshaped by new views on love, politics, and the city's slow decline.
Helen Oyeyemi's collection of interconnected tales uses mysterious keys to unlock not just physical spaces, but also hidden histories, entangled relationships, and the deep secrets that connect her characters across time and fantastical settings.
In the chaos of the Vietnam War, a new spy navigates a maze of lies and delusion, seeking meaning amidst the moral decay and psychological operations run by his uncle.
In 1975, a cynical TV producer exiled to the remote Canadian North falls in love with a captivating radio voice. Their lives and community face challenges from an Arctic canoe trip and a gas pipeline.
In 1950s England, a mild-mannered spinster finds her quiet life as an 'excellent woman' upended by the chaotic arrival of new neighbors, revealing the comedic and poignant dance of unrequited desires and societal expectations.
In a world where honor and humiliation dictate life and death, an un-shameable man born of three mothers unwittingly ignites a fatal rivalry between two powerful families in a land on the brink of historical upheaval.
In early 1900s North Dakota, a community faces the loss of ancestral lands and the encroaching world, relying on the enduring, often mystical, power of its Anishinaabeg heritage.
A retired bank manager's quiet life changes forever when his eccentric aunt takes him on a global adventure through a world of smugglers, spies, and free spirits, pushing him to leave his old life behind.
Ten young women, victims of sexual scandals with powerful men, are imprisoned in a brutal, isolated desert facility where they must band together to survive their captors and the wilderness as their hope for rescue dwindles.
An eighty-two-year-old woman walks across Canada to see the ocean, leaving her husband and a lifelong admirer to deal with her absence and their shared, complicated past, all while she travels with a talking coyote.
Returning to the isolated, snow-bound boarding school where a trio of suicides shattered her youth, a Latin teacher confronts ominous messages and a resurfacing journal that threaten to expose the dark, watery truth of a twenty-year-old mystery as new deaths begin to mirror the past.
Facing terminal illness, two fiercely independent women, bound by decades of shared secrets and sundaes, confront the hardest test of their unconventional friendship.
In the desolate Rhodesian veld, a white woman's descent into madness and her Black servant's silent resentment lead to a violent act that exposes colonial society's brutal realities.
When reality breaks apart, a photographer tells the grand love story of a vanished rock star and her musical partner, a love like the Orpheus legend set against East-meets-West conflicts and a world literally coming undone.
Two animators, bonded by their working-class past and artistic drive, find their decade-long partnership and friendship strained when their successful film, based on one's traumatic past, forces them to confront the real cost of their creative bond.
In a gilded cage of Edwardian society, an American heiress subtly manipulates her father and adulterous husband to preserve her marriage and family, all while knowing the truth of a flawed golden bowl.
On Mothering Sunday in 1924, a maid's secret meeting with an aristocratic heir changes her life, leading to a journey of self-discovery that lasts for decades.
A young Russian immigrant, Lillian Leyb, travels from New York's Yiddish theaters to the Alaskan wilderness in search of her lost daughter after surviving a brutal attack.
In 1970s Northern California, a violent act shatters a makeshift family, propelling its members across continents and decades as they grapple with the indelible echoes of their shared, fractured past.
