The Road to the Salt SeaWINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTION PEN HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLIST As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkads What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamids Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice. Able God works for low pay at a four star hotel where he must flash his toothpaste white smile for wealthy guests.

At the Five-Hop One-Stop

and heartfelt American family saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs

an inspiring collection of stories

and Agency

Ocurrió de noche es una persecución salvaje y aterradora por las calles de Oslo

never to emerge—for she is descended from a long line of cursed women

But as the facade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous

altering identities

the Duke of Wellington and the French master of diplomacy Talleyrand

—Chicago Tribune

utterly engaging

She wants to be the fairest of them all