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Children Under the Volcano

The Ferrante family gathers every August at their house on Mount Etna — rebuilt three times after lava flows — until a sixteen-year-old's question at breakfast cracks them all open.

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The Cab Driver of Oz

A cab driver from Queens gets dropped into Oz by a tornado and spends three years driving a Toyota Camry on the Yellow Brick Road, discovering that fairy tales have terrible infrastructure.

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Tango in a War Zone

In a basement milonga during Argentina's Dirty War, a resistance courier dances tango with an intelligence operative who carries a list of seven people scheduled to disappear.

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Cassandra’s Last Vision

Cursed by Apollo to speak true prophecy that no one believes, Cassandra watches Troy fall exactly as she predicted — and sees, in her final moment, every truth-teller who will follow her.

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A Garden in Hiroshima

Three generations of women tend a garden behind a house in Hiroshima, growing morning glories in soil that was sterilized by the atomic bomb and refused to stay dead.

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Ashes of a Saint

A Franciscan archivist discovers the private diary of a canonized saint — revealing she was an atheist who loved a nun and chose fire over a life built on lies.

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The Zero-Gravity Circus

A retired acrobat with two blown knees launches the first circus in space aboard an orbital station — and a disastrous opening night becomes the most-watched live event in human history.

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