Aria Aber’s Good Girl: A Novel is a story of art, family, love, and survival. In Berlin’s underground of raves, art, and drugs, teenage Nila – born to Afghan parents and raised in graffiti-stained public housing – searches for her voice. Drawn into the orbit of Marlowe, a fading American writer, she tastes freedom but risks losing herself. As racial tensions rise, Nila must decide who she wants to be. In Darrow Farr’s The Bombshell: A Novel, beautiful, brash Séverine is enjoying a luxurious summer on the Mediterranean coast – until she’s captured and held for ransom by a militant trio fighting for Corsican independence. As she’s exposed to the group’s politics, newfound beliefs take root, and she becomes the face of a radical movement – pushing her summer toward an explosive conclusion. Fabienne Josaphat’s Kingdom of No Tomorrow: A Novel follows Nettie, who joins the Black Panther Party’s Free Health Clinics in 1968 Oakland. She’s soon drawn into a dangerous movement and passionate love affair with a prominent figure in the party. As covert FBI campaigns close in and internal tensions rise, she must confront what justice – and survival – truly mean for a Black woman within the revolution.
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DARROW FARR is a Salvadoran American writer. She was a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University from 2017 to 2019 and received an MFA in creative writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. The Bombshell: A Novel (Pamela Dorman Books) is her debut work of fiction. Farr was born and raised outside Philadelphia, where she now lives with her husband and son.
