It is one in the morning and her sister is sitting at the window, eyes open, not there. This is the third time this month. Nobody at any hospital can tell them why.

Freshman week, 1950. The women are told to undress, stand against a wall with metal pins taped to their spines, and hold still for the camera. It is called a posture study.

A boy sits on a stool in the square with a stick, paid by the governor to keep the crows off a corpse. That is the first thing this novel shows you, and it is not the cruellest.

She gives birth alone in the captain's cabin while Algerian corsairs come over the rail. Then she leaves the baby on the bed, picks up a loaded gun, and opens the door.

The neighbour's mother has just been born. She is eighty-eight, she has cataracts and cancer, and there is soil under her fingernails. Her daughter could not be happier.

A ship's concierge asks a stranger whether her engagement ring is real. He tells her the truth. Everything the novel wants to argue about is already in that exchange.

One young American woman watched the end of imperial China from inside the empress's sitting room, wrote it all down, and was left out of every account since. This book is what happens when her diaries are finally read.

Strangers by Belle Burden hands its structure to a pair of ospreys nesting on a pole outside the window, and the birds turn out to be doing more than decorating the grief.

At a Las Vegas fan convention, a reality star swings at a gossip blogger who has been tormenting her for six years and connects instead with a seventeen-year-old cancer survivor wearing a T-shirt with her own face printed on it. Forty phones catch it. Her career ends in the time it takes to post.

A famous novelist sits in a locked office clicking through the bestseller list one title at a time, reading synopses, taking notes, hunting for something fresh enough to sell and familiar enough to be safe. He has three months to deliver. He does not have a story. Everything that follows grows out of that empty afternoon.

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