Dzanc Books
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A Splintering
$17.95 Add to cartA perfect book club read for those who love morally gray women
In a village in rural Pakistan, Tara is watching and waiting. The smell of dung and dust hangs over her world. She is desperate to leave h
- Author: Aziz Amna, Dur E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 193860377X
- Language: English
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The Shipikisha Club
$27.95 Add to cartKabwe, Zambia: Sali, a working mother of three, stands trial for the murder of her husband, Kasunga. The prosecutor claims Sali shot him after a heated fight in their bedroom. There are no witnesses. … [more below]
- Author: Kalimamukwento, Mubanga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1938603753
- Language: English
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The Tavern at the End of History
$27.95 Add to cartOver a span of five days in 2017, two strangers find themselves in a sea-rocked sanitarium on the coast of Maine where, as they gather at an auction for a piece of art stolen in the Second World War,
- Author: Collins, Morris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1938603524
- Language: English
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Nadezhda in the Dark
$17.95 Add to cartA stunning, novel-in-verse exploration of LGBTQ+ life in the shadow of the former Soviet bloc
On the longest night of a milk-dark Berlin winter, a doomed couple sit side by side on their bed. Both fled… [more below]
- Author: Moskovitch, Yelena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1938603516
- Language: English
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Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds
$17.95 Add to cartFor fans of George Saunders and Haruki Murakami, Christian Moody delivers his debut speculative short story collection, Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds–tales of the strange beauty and shadowy … [more below]
- Author: Moody, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1938603354
- Language: English
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Before the Mango Ripens
$17.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize
Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the Mango Ripens examines the enduring themes
- Author: Kurian, Afabwaje
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1938603370
- Language: English
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Coydog
$17.95 Add to cartMeet Moses Kincaid, a Native American bounty hunter who served in the US Army in Desert Storm and Haiti. Now, to pay the bills, he’s taken to tracking down wanted criminals in and around Kansas City. … [more below]
- Author: Tromblay, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1938603389
- Language: English
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Guest Privileges
$27.95 Add to cartWeaving memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of discovery through the clandestine queer communities of the Gulf States, and into the very nature of home and b
- Author: Adams, Gaar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1938603303
- Language: English
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The Banana Wars
$27.95 Add to cartWinner of the Dzanc Prize
for Fiction Urab?, Colombia, 1990: A violent strike at plantations
across the banana zone leads to crops in flames, managers murdered, and the local
economy teetering on the bri- Author: Grostephan, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1950539946
- Language: English
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The Australian
$17.95 Add to cartA young man known as “the Australian” journeys between New York and Melbourne on a quest of self-discovery in this poignant exploration of loneliness, love, and fatherhood
In her humorous and emotiona… [more below]
- Author: Smith-Stevens, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 193860329X
- Language: English
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Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation
$27.95 Add to cartFollowing a tight-knit, eccentric Jewish family, the Rosenbergs, over four decades, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation combines the madness of motherhood with the manic absurdity of grief in a stunning … [more below]
- Author: Yahm, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 347
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1938603281
- Language: English
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True Believer
$17.95 Add to cartIn True Believer, Jeff Kass intertwines fiction with reality as he delves into the origins of the Marvel superheroes, explores how the Marvel saga informed his own worldview, and implores us all to co
- Author: Kass, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 95
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1938603265
- Language: English
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Be Gay, Do Crime
$17.95 Add to cartA follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-qu… [more below]
- Author: Llewellyn, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1938603311
- Language: English
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Yoke and Feather
$17.95 Add to cartMay you braid back the hair of the girl who asks you to; may your lips brush other lips in an almost-kiss; when the chickens are gone, may you sow the coop in arugula; may the fogged-in mountain roads
- Author: Van Eerden, Jessie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0984213368
- Language: English
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The Archive of Alternate Endings
$16.95 Add to cartCaptivating…Drager’s plot is ambitious and emotionally resonant, making for a clever, beguiling novel. —Publishers Weekly starred review
Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-… [more below]- Author: Drager, Lindsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1945814829
- Language: English
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Everything Lost Is Found Again: Four Seasons in Lesotho
$16.95 Add to cartFunny and heartfelt, this amalgamation of memoir and essay collection tells the story of twenty months the author spent in Lesotho, the small, landlocked kingdom surrounded by South Africa. There he f… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1945814624
- Language: English
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White Dancing Elephants
$16.95 Read moreBest Books of 2018 Kirkus Reviews (debut and short fiction categories)
Best Books of 2018, Entropy Magazine
A Book Club selection for The Wing, Rebel Women’s Lit and Bookish.com
35 over 35 Debut Ficti
- Author: Bhuvaneswar, Chaya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1945814616
- Language: English
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La Syrena: Visions of a Syrian Mermaid from Space
$16.95 Read moreWinner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize
LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore… [more below]- Author: El Ghadbanah, Banah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 195053944X
- Language: English
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Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces
$16.95 Read moreIn Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to Lesoth
- Author: McGrath, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1950539504
- Language: English
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Dioramas
$16.95 Read moreIn this hybrid novel–part essay, part prose poem, part travel
narrative–Blair Austin brings us nose to the glass with our own
vanishing world, what we preserve and at what cost.In a city far in the
- Author: Austin, Blair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 195053975X
- Language: English
