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Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Sorrowland

Rivers Solomon

355 pages • paperback • 2021

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction horror lgbtqia+ science fiction dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
A Romance Novelist Desperately Tries to Romanticize Midwestern Winter by Mary Spencer

A Romance Novelist Desperately Tries to Romanticize Midwestern Winter

2024 McSweeney’s Advent Calendar #13

Mary Spencer

18 pages • hardcover • 2024 user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction romance
The 100 Percent True Story of Santa and Jesus, Probably by John Moe, Charlie Moe

The 100 Percent True Story of Santa and Jesus, Probably

2024 McSweeney’s Advent Calendar #11

John Moe, Charlie Moe

21 pages • hardcover • 2024 user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction short stories
The Twelve Days of Christmas by Colin Nissan

The Twelve Days of Christmas

2024 McSweeney’s Advent Calendar #24

Colin Nissan

20 pages • hardcover • 2024 user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction short stories
Ayn Rand Writes Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Jennie Egerdie

Ayn Rand Writes Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

2024 McSweeney’s Advent Calendar #6

Jennie Egerdie

18 pages • hardcover • 2024 user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction short stories
I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled by Melinda Taub

I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled

2024 McSweeney’s Advent Calendar #21

Melinda Taub

11 pages • hardcover • 2024 user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction short stories
Surely People Will Remember Me, Ebenezer Scrooge, as the Christmas-Loving Man I Became by Jordan Call

Surely People Will Remember Me, Ebenezer Scrooge, as the Christmas-Loving Man I Became

2024 McSweeney’s Advent Calendar #17

Jordan Call

23 pages • hardcover • 2024 user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction short stories
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

303 pages • paperback • 2021

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective slow-paced
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

The Salt Grows Heavy

Cassandra Khaw

2 hours, 54 minutes • audio • 2023

5.0gossamer_lens's review
fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ dark mysterious fast-paced
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan by John Bul Dau

Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan

John Bul Dau

166 pages • digital • 2010 user-added

5.0gossamer_lens's review
nonfiction biography history emotional medium-paced