Story Street Writers
Floodlines by Saleem Haddad is an ambitious and heartfelt novel following an Iraqi-British family of artists from 1950s Baghdad to the summer of 2014 in London, Dubai, and along the Tigris River.
In the summer of 2014, three estranged sisters, Ishtar, Zainab, and Mediha, are forced together when their late father’s artworks are rediscovered.…
In the isolated town of Five Poems Lake, the sun has been slowly disappearing for 12 years, but now a new sliver is missing each day. As the town cools and plunges further into darkness, the people must face their impending deaths until individuals’ heads begin to transform, erupting into balls of light, becoming their own small suns.…
Soft Burial by Fang Fang was originally met with critical acclaim upon its publication in China in 2016 and even received the Lu Yao Literature Award, but by May 2017, the work had been denounced and removed from stores.
The novel opens with a nameless protagonist suffering from amnesia since 1952 after being pulled, barely alive, from a river.…
Paul Theroux is a prolific author who, at 83, is reflecting on life and aging in his new short story collection, The Vanishing Point. The stories are mostly unrelated (except for the last section, which focuses on the character Andy Parent).…
We’ve all been there – sitting in the blue glow of the screen that holds the image of the loved one we would do anything to have in our arms. Blue Light Hours by Bruna Dantas Lobato is a novel about that unique brand of loneliness.…
TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic Violence
The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma is a brutal and honest look at war and genocide. Kunle, the novel’s protagonist, is defined by the guilt he feels over a childhood accident that left his younger brother paralyzed.…