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Foreword by Jenny Minton Quigley, series editor Introduction by Valeria Luiselli, guest editor
Screen Time, by Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
The Wolves of Circassia, by Daniel Mason
Mercedes s Special Talent, by Tere Dávila, translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed
Rainbows, by Joseph O Neill
A Way with Bea, by Shanteka Sigers
Seams, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft
The Little Widow from the Capital, by Yohanca Delgado
Lemonade, by Eshkol Nevo, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
Breastmilk, by Pemi Aguda
The Old Man of Kusumpur, by Amar Mitra, translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta
Where They Always Meet, by Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
Fish Stories, by Janika Oza
Horse Soup, by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Max Lawton
Clean Teen, by Francisco González
Dengue Boy, by Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Zikora, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Apples, by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson
Warp and Weft, by David Ryan
Face Time, by Lorrie Moore
An Unlucky Man, by Samanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
VALERIA LUISELLI was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa, and India. She is the author of two essay collections and the novels Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, and The Lost Children Archive. The recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, and the 2021 Dublin Literary Award, she has also been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award and three times for the Kirkus Prize. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
JENNY MINTON QUIGLEY is the author of a memoir, The Early Birds, and editor of the anthology Lolita in the Afterlife. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, sons, and dogs.