Duplex
9 best books like Duplex (Kathryn Davis): No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, Antwerp, Tale of a Boon's Wife, Harrow County, Vol. 2: Twice Told, S O S: Poems, 1961-2013, Η φόνισσα, The Bear
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Author | Rachel Louise Snyder |
An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors.
We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call...
Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil
This mystery set in the world of superheroes follows a reporter investigating what happened to her father: The Black Hammer, from New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lemire (Descender, Underwater Welder, Old Man Logan).
All answers seem to lie in Spiral City's infamous insane asylum...
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
Author | Patricia Lockwood |
ISBN | 0143126520 |
A breathtaking new collection from one of today’s boldest and most adventurous poets
Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: what if a deer did porn? Is America going down on Canada? What happens...
Author | Roberto Bolaño |
ISBN | 0811217175 |
As Bolano’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano’s fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolano’s enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed,...
Author | Fartumo Kusow |
ISBN | 1772600474 |
A young Somali woman defies convention and clan to marry the man she loves, but must face the consequences.
Despite her family’s threat to disown her, Idil, a young Somali woman, rejects her high Bliss status to marry Sidow, a poor Boon man. Her decision transforms her life, forcing her to...
Harrow County, Vol. 2: Twice Told
Author | Cullen Bunn |
ISBN | 1616559004 |
Evil twin!
Yeah, it's been done to death, but it's still a fun trope.
Ok, so this was one of the many times when irony kicked me in my tits. Just as soon as I gave up on the library ever finding their missing copy of this volume (it had been in book limbo for 3 or 4 months), and decided to go...
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka—"whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others" (New York Times)—was one of the preeminent literary...
Author | Alexandros Papadiamantis |
ISBN | 9600509379 |
When I learned that C.P. Cavafy and Odysseus Elytis both admired the prose of Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851-1911), I knew I had to read some of his work. Advised that his shorter pieces are much better than his novels, I read the collection Tales From a Greek Island and then the novella The Murderess,...
A powerfully suspenseful story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack.
While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, 300 pounds of...