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“akil kumarasamy”

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  • Meet Us by the Roaring Sea

    A Novel

    by Akil Kumarasamy ...
    A haunting exploration of memory, technology, and the power of human connection in a near-future world.Meet Us by the Roaring Sea, an New York Times Editors' Choice and finalist for the Lambda Award in Bisexual Fiction, follows a young woman as she grapples with her mother's death in the near future. Seeking solace, she immerses herself in translating an old manuscript about female medical ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Half Gods

    by Akil Kumarasamy ...
    A startlingly beautiful debut, Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ways: following an act of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Meet Us by the Roaring Sea

    A Novel

    by Akil Kumarasamy ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 58 min

    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEIn the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens, and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself. She begins to translate an old manuscript about a group of female medical students—living through a drought and at the edge of the war—as they create a new ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Half Gods

    by Akil Kumarasamy ...
    Narrated by Priya Ayyar, Vikas Adam ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 31 min

    A startlingly beautiful audiobook debut, Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekersFollowing the fractured origins and destinies of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country

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    by Chavisa Woods ...
    Narrated by Rudy Sanda, Rebecca Mitchell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    The eight stories in Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country paint a vivid image of people living on the fringes in America, people who don't do what you might expect them to. Not stories of triumph over adversity, but something completely other.Described in language that is brilliantly sardonic, Woods's characters return repeatedly to places where they don't belong—often the places where ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    A People's History of Heaven

    by Mathangi Subramanian ...
    Narrated by Jeed Saddy ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    Welcome to Heaven, a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new high-rise apartment buildings and technology incubators in contemporary Bangalore, one of India's fastest-growing cities. In Heaven, you will come to know a community of people living hand-to-mouth and constantly struggling against the city government who wants to bulldoze their homes and build yet more glass high-rises. These ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Affairs of the Falcóns

    A Novel

    by Melissa Rivero ...
    Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City.Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Secret Talker

    A Novel

    by Geling Yan ...
    Narrated by Angela Lin ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 54 min

    ""The Secret Talker is a profound meditation on love, the difficulties of communication and the agonizing joy and brutality of commitment."" -- THE NEW YORK TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND ""GLOBETROTTING"" PICK!A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary superstars.Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • I Must Have You

    A Novel

    by JoAnna Novak ...
    The year is 1999, and thirteen-year-old Elliot is a self-appointed diet coach” who teaches her classmates how to survive on one stick of gum a day to get heroin-chic, Kate Moss thin. Elliot is obsessed with her best friend and former client” Lisa, who is fresh out of inpatient treatment and dating a nineteen-year-old drug dealer. Meanwhile, Elliot’s mother Anna, a capricious poetry professor, has ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A People's History of Heaven

    by Mathangi Subramanian ...
    **"The language [takes] on a musicality that is in sharp contrast to the bleak setting . . . refreshing . . . a strong debut."—New York Times Book Review“Subramanian writes with empathy and exuberance, offering a much-needed glimpse into a world that too many of us don't even know exists. This is a book to give your little sister, your mother, your best friend, yourself, so together you can ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Fellowship Point

    A Novel

    by Alice Elliott Dark ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 32 min

    “A magnificent storytelling feat” (The Boston Globe) story of lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th century.Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    The Paradox Hotel

    A Novel

    by Rob Hart ...
    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    “Time travel, murder, corruption, restless baby dinosaurs, and a snarky robot named Ruby collide in this excellent, noir-inflected, humor-infused, science-fiction thriller.”—The Boston GlobeAn impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. From the author of The Warehouse and the Assassins Anonymous series . . .FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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