Schweblin, Samanta

Summary: "Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH

Ha, Sng-nan

Summary: Ha Sng-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. Among the stories: a woman lends her neighbor a spatula, then starts having gaps in her memory; in a team-building retreat, tenants plan to kill their landlord after he raises the rent. They are ordinary individuals-- in an increasingly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HA

Matsuda, Aoko

Summary: "In this witty and exuberant collection of linked stories, Aoko Matsuda takes the rich, millenia-old tradition of Japanese folktales-shapeshifting wives and foxes, magical trees and wells-and wholly reinvents them, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged, and transformed by the only sometimes visible forces that surround them. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Motoya, Yukiko

Summary: In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien--and, through it, find a way to liberation.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOT