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How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it Interviewing authors and experts as well as drawing on her own experience, Natasha Lunn guides us through the complexities of these three questions. The result is a book to learn from, to lose and find yourself in. The real-life love stories will leave you feeling hopeful and seen, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships.

A bold, wry, and intimate memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us.

Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author Nathan Englander will be joined by author Mira Jacob ( The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing) to discuss his new, "many-splendored" ( The New York Times) novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, a powerful, riveting story exploring the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lives of a prisoner in a secret cell and the soldier who watched over him for a dozen years.

Was ist der Stoff, der die Welt zusammenhält? In einer anderen Welt, zu einer anderen Zeit. Proto schuftet unter Tage in den Bergwerken, um das kostbare Material zu Tage zu fördern, aus dem einfach alles hergestellt wird: Sinnscheiße. Bis er eines Tages der Frau begegnet, die sein Leben verändert - indem sie die entscheidende Frage stellt: "Der ganze Planet besteht aus Sinnscheiße. Warum muss man etwas mühsam in der Tiefe suchen, was auf der Oberfläche in rauen Mengen herumliegt?"

With depth, heart, and agility, debut novelist Mira Jacob takes us on a deftly plotted journey that ranges from 1970s India to suburban 1980s New Mexico to Seattle during the dot.com boom. The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing is an epic, irreverent testimony to the bonds of love, the pull of hope, and the power of making peace with life’s uncertainties.

“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises.