February #books read (* for favorites this month):
The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac - Louise Kennedy*
Hard by a Great Forest - Leo Vardiashvili
Hazardous Spirits - Anbara Salam
Pet - Catherine Chidgey
Mobility - Lydia Kiesling
And Don't Look Back - Rebecca Barrow
How We Named the Stars - Andrés N. Ordorica
Ordinary Notes - Christina Sharpe*
The Haunting of Alejandra - V. Castro
Filthy Animals - Brandon Taylor*
Rouge - Mona Awad
My Nemesis - Charmaine Craig
Cahokia Jazz - Francis Spufford*
Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar*
Winter in Sochko - Elisa Shua Dusapin*
@bookstodon I can't stop thinking about Cahokia Jazz, a noir mystery set in an alternate 1920s, in a mostly-Indigenous city on the Mississippi River. The plot is a slow burner, the hardboiled cops and femmes fatales are classic, and it's almost overstuffed with worldbuilding, but what a world.
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