Michelle Latiolais recommends
The Banana Wars (2024)
Alan Grostephan
"Here is a novel in which dead men still speak 'for not even the dead shut their mouths.' The Banana Wars is as fine a novel as Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo or Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season. Alan Grostephan's prose is devastatingly precise, with a beauty that arises - perversely - only from horrifying situations. I have not read anything as fine as The Banana Wars in ages."
31 Paradiso (2022)
Rhoda Huffey
"You will be puzzled. You will say Huh? You will giggle. You will crack up. You will start to know who Francine Didwell is. You will hold her in your hands till the end. You will know the very original company you have kept in reading 31 Paradiso."
The Mercy Seat (2018)
Elizabeth H Winthrop
"This taut, deft novel asks us to look, and to look hard, and our willingness is profoundly honoured."
