Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid
Giuseppe Catozzella translated by Anne Milano Appel
“Knowing where to find the human traffickers was easy. All the Somalis in Addis Ababa knew it, and in recent weeks I had asked the right questions.”
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The Queue
Basma Abdel Aziz translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
“In the fierce heat, Yehya stood in a long queue that extended from the end of the wide street all the way to the Gate.”
Ear to the Ground
Paul Kolsby & David L. Ulin
“If you looked at a map, you'd think North America began at the Atlantic shore and ran west to the Pacific—through that wide, misunderstood state of Ohio, across forgettable Indiana and the confounding yellow-green flatness of Kansas and eastern Colorado.”
Letters to Vera
Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd, and Olga Voronina
“My delightful, my love, my life, I don’t understand anything: how can you not be with me? I’m so infinitely used to you that I now feel myself lost and empty: without you, my soul.”
Soldier Girls
Helen Thorpe
“Michelle Fischer had not yet reached twenty but she already knew how to find the National Guard Armory, a low-slung, modern-looking building made of red bricks with a green metal roof. It commanded a prominent seat beside the Lloyd Expressway, the main east–west thoroughfare that split the heart of Evansville, Indiana.”
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