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Brilliantly read by a multi-cast of narrators. The International Bestseller 'Just stellar - extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled' - Anne Enright, Booker Prize winning author of The Wren, The Wren 'These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside' - Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon...

When Marin Halvorsen returns to her family’s farmhouse after years away, she expects to say goodbye to her dying mother and settle the future of the property. Instead, she finds a mystery. Hidden ledgers. Torn pages. Unfamiliar names. Photographs of strangers standing beside the old farmhouse decades ago. As Marin and her brothers Elias and Rowan begin searching through the house their father left behind, they uncover evidence that the farm was far more than a quiet family home. For years, people came to the Halvorsen property seeking refuge. Someone helped them disappear.

‘No one writes like Samanta Schweblin’ – Lorrie Moore The strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story. A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare...

There are white people, black people, brown people, red people, and yellow people, but what about the people who are bi-racial or multi-racial? This question of race and color leads one six-year-old boy named Christian on a quest to seek answers. He asks his parents, kids at school, and teachers what color they think he is and what color he should say he is. As the day progresses, he hears stereotypes, but he also hears valuable information which helps him to embrace all of who he is.

A tender childhood memory comes to life in this heartwarming true story about a little girl, her beloved Barbie, and the quiet kindness of a woman who stitched love into every tiny outfit she made. From the moment Susan received her very first Barbie and Ken, her imagination opened into a world of pretend play and possibility. But what made her Barbie truly special were the handmade clothes that began arriving in the mail — delicate dresses, tiny tops, soft crocheted skirts, and one unforgettable black fur jacket with little buttons sewn down the front.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A haunting, unforgettable collection of tales by Samanta Schweblin, winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature and three-time Booker Prize finalist "The stories of “Good and Evil” are...

Brand-new stories by: Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas, Sehba Sarwar, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Larry Watts, and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton.