Two Lines Press

  • Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes

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    “Eminently worthy of acclaim.” —Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far)

    An intimate exploration of motherhood, Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of inspir

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    • Author: Barrera, Jazmina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949641589
    • Language: English
  • Days Come and Go

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    Chronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. Through the voices of Anna… [more below]

    • Author: Boum, Hemley
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 350
    • Publish Date: November 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 194964135X
    • Language: English
  • The Interim

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    “Comic and terrifying and profound.” –Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books of 2021)

    C. is a wretched grump, an anguished patron of bars, brothels, and train stations. He is also an acclaimed East

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    • Author: Hilbig, Wolfgang
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 290
    • Publish Date: April 19 2022
    • ISBN10: 1949641422
    • Language: English
  • Slipping

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    There are shards of magic to be found on every page of this novel.” –Omar El Akkad, author of American War

    A struggling journalist named Seif is introduced to a former exile with an encyclopedic knowl

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    • Author: Kheir, Mohamed
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 187
    • Publish Date: June 08 2021
    • ISBN10: 1949641163
    • Language: English
  • Baboon

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    Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidt’s stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes o… [more below]

    • Author: Aidt, Naja Marie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 14 2014
    • ISBN10: 1931883386
    • Language: English
  • Off-White

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    It’s 1966 in Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the long shadow of colonialism still hangs over the country. Grandma Bee is the proud, cigar-smoking matriarch of the Vanta family, … [more below]

    • Author: Roemer, Astrid
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 377
    • Publish Date: April 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1949641252
    • Language: English
  • That Time of Year

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    Tourist season is over, and the rain won’t stop falling. It’s time for the vacationing Parisians, Herman and his family included, to abandon their rural getaways in the countryside and return to norma… [more below]

    • Author: Ndiaye, Marie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: September 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 194964149X
    • Language: English
  • Empty Wardrobes

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    “There is no doubting the authenticity of Carvalho’s vision and the originality and severity of her voice.” –Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books

    For ten years Dora has ritualistically mour

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    • Author: de Carvalho, Maria Judite
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: October 12 2021
    • ISBN10: 194964121X
    • Language: English
  • The Red Book of Farewells

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    For fans of Claire-Louise Bennett and Eileen Myles, an enigmatic work of autofiction set in a time of leftist politics and criminalized sexuality.

    Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenber

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    • Author: Saisio, Pirkko
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: April 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949641465
    • Language: English
  • Hugs and Cuddles

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    After abandoning his traditional life in a deteriorating Porto Alegre, the narrator of Hugs and Cuddles zealously recommits himself to a man he calls “the engineer”, a childhood friend with whom he sh[more below]

    • Author: Noll, João Gilberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: October 18 2022
    • ISBN10: 1949641384
    • Language: English
  • Bright

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    When five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told-he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his fathe

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    • Author: Pimwana, Duanwad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: April 09 2019
    • ISBN10: 1931883807
    • Language: English
  • Elektrik: Caribbean Writing

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    In Elektrik, eight women writers from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe come together to explore, in poetry and prose, the complex nature of Caribbean existence. A single mother has an intimate encoun… [more below]

    • Series: Calico #8
    • Author: Coolidge, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 166
    • Publish Date: September 26 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949641503
    • Language: English
  • At the Edge of the Woods

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    “Balances wonder and disquiet with incomparable grace and precision…Ono continues to captivate.” –Bryan Washington, author of Memorial

    In an unnamed foreign country, a family of three is settling in

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    • Author: Ono, Masatsugu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: April 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 1949641287
    • Language: English
  • Out of the Sugar Factory

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    Elmiger’s breakout novel is a staring contest with History: an effort to map the resonances and frictions introduced to the world by the sugar industry. But can any writing project contain such devast[more below]

    • Author: Elmiger, Dorothee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: May 09 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949641406
    • Language: English
  • A Working Woman

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    A provocative new novel from the author ranked among Granta’s “Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists”
    Globally acclaimed as a relentless innovator and a meticulous explorer of the psyche’s most ob… [more below]

    • Author: Navarro, Elvira
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 10 2017
    • ISBN10: 1931883653
    • Language: English
  • About Uncle

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    A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness–for readers of Ottessa Mo

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    • Author: Gisler, Rebecca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 148
    • Publish Date: February 20 2024
    • ISBN10: 1949641554
    • Language: English
  • No Edges: Swahili Stories

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    Swahili is the future. The first collection of Swahili fiction in English translation, No Edges introduces eight East African writers from Tanzania and Kenya as they share tales of sorcerers, Nairobi … [more below]

    • Series: Calico #7
    • Author: Coolidge, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: April 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949641457
    • Language: English
  • On Lighthouses

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    “This book is a light at the end of the tunnel.” –The Paris Review

    Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offe

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    • Author: Barrera, Jazmina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 174
    • Publish Date: May 03 2022
    • ISBN10: 1949641341
    • Language: English
  • Cross-Stitch

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    A debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of Linea Nigra and On Lighthouses, translated by Christina MacSweeney.

    It was meant to be the trip of a lifet… [more below]

    • Author: Barrera, Jazmina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 255
    • Publish Date: April 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 1949641651
    • Language: English
  • Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories

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    A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist…
    A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brink…
    A sex worker discovers a dark secret among the nuns of the pampas…
    The mountain fog is not what [more below]

    • Series: Calico
    • Author: Coolidge, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: March 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 1949641570
    • Language: English
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