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A dazzling, subversive collection that bends reality to explore the deep, sometimes unsettling ties of family, heritage, and love. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky: The most acclaimed short story collection of the year.
- unsettling
- intimate
- haunting
- imaginative
- 01
The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adidchie
A deeply empathetic and sharply observed exploration of displacement, longing, and the quiet collisions between two worlds.
- 02
The Office of Historical Corrections
Danielle Evans
A razor-sharp, emotionally resonant collection that examines how the ghosts of history haunt our most intimate relationships.
- 03
Stay with me
Ayobami Adebayo
A devastating, fiercely intimate portrait of a marriage buckling under the unbearable weight of secrets and the desperate hunger for a child.
- 04
Friday black
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
A surreal, razor-sharp collection that weaponizes dark satire to expose the bleeding edge of American racism and hyper-consumerism.
- 05
Everything good will come
Sefi Atta
A fierce and intimate exploration of girlhood, grief, and the divergent paths of two friends navigating a society that demands their submission.
- 06
Get in Trouble
Kelly Link
A darkly playful plunge into a world where suburban anxieties and teenage sleepovers collide with ghosts, superheroes, and the uncanny.
- 07
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
A vibrant, unflinching portrait of childhood resilience that gives way to the complex, isolating realities of the immigrant experience.
- 08
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July
A tender, delightfully weird exploration of lonely people fumbling toward connection in the most unexpected ways.
- 09
The Fishermen
Chigozie Obioma
A mythic, dread-soaked tragedy of brotherhood and the devastating power of a single, poisonous prophecy.
- 10
A People's Future of the United States
Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah and others
A defiant, electrifying collection of speculative visions that dares to imagine marginalized communities surviving, resisting, and thriving in the face of systemic collapse.
- 11
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
A delightfully disorienting, modern fairy tale that tastes of spice, secrets, and the uncanny weight of a mother's past.
- 12
What we lose
Zinzi Clemmons
A fragmented, deeply intimate meditation on the shattering weight of grief and the search for a self between two worlds.
