Debut Essays or Short Stories
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Debut Essays or Short Stories. Annotations from Kirkus, unless otherwise attributed.
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Jerks
Lippmann ’s tantalizing collection (after Doll Palace) offers a set of character studies fraught with longing. (Publishers Weekly)
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When Trying to Return Home
Short fiction featuring Black and Latine characters trying to figure out their roles within their families, their love lives, and their communities.
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Call and Response
A wide range of stories examine family and life in contemporary Botswana.
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Welcome Me to the Kingdom
Set across the temples, slums and gated estates of late 20th-century Bangkok, three families -- a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, a family abandoned by their white American patriarch and an adopted brotherhood of orphaned boys -- search for reinvention in a city unmade by a financial crisis. (NoveList)
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Drinking From Graveyard Wells
In Drinking from Graveyard Wells, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu assembles poignantly reflective stories that center the voices of African women charting their own Black history through the ages. (NoveList)
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LoterÃa
Newly illustrated and with bonus stories, an updated edition of the award-winning short story collection features a unique tale for each of the 54 cards in the Mexican board game Loteria, with images of murderers, ghosts, goblins and ghouls. (NoveList)
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What We Wish Were True
A lyrical, searching meditation on terminal illness.“Maybe death is not the worst thing?â€
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You're That Bitch
A Filipino American beauty influencer and social media phenomenon based in Hawaii, Bretman "The Baddest" Rock compiles essays, advice, drawings, recipes, and never-before-seen photos to reflect on his family, Filipino culture, and what being a first-generation immigrant has meant for him. (Library Journal)
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The Anchored World
The long-anticipated full-length debut collection from award-winning flash fiction writer Jasmine Sawers. A goat begins to grow inside a human heart. The rightful king is born a hard, smooth seashell. Supernovas burst across skin like ink in water. Heartbreak transforms maidens into witches, girls into goblins, mothers into monsters. Hunger drives lovers and daughters, soldiers and ghosts, to unhinge their jaws and swallow the world. Drawing inspiration from a mixed heritage and from history—from the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen to the ancient legends of Thailand, from the suburbs of Buffalo, New York to the endless horizon of the American Midwest—Jasmine Sawers invents a hybrid folklore for liminal characters who live between the lines and within the creases of race and language, culture and gender, sexuality and ability. The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore is equal parts love letter to the old tales and indictment of their shortcomings, offering a new mythology to reflect the many faces and voices of the twenty-first century. (Publisher)
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A New Race of Men From Heaven
A poignant collection of stories about people in search of connection.The Indian and Indian American characters in Sen’s short fiction, chosen by Danielle Evans for the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, are adrift.
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