All the Names They Used for God: Stories
By Anjali Sachdeva

"One of the best collections I've ever read. Every single story is a standout."---Roxane Gay"Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments."---Anthony Doerr, author ofand All the Light We Cannot See"Strange and wonderful . . . delightfully unexpected."--The New York Times Book ReviewA dystopian tale about genetically modified septuplets who are struck by a mysterious illness; a love story about a man bewitched by a mermaid; a stirring imagining of the lives of Nigerian schoolgirls in the aftermath of a Boko Haram kidnapping. The stories inand All the Names They Used for Godand break down genre barriers--from science fiction to American Gothic to magical realism to horror--and are united by each character's brutal struggle with fate. Like many of us, the characters in this collection are in pursuit of the sublime. Along the way, they must navigate the borderland between salvation and destruction.NAMED A MUST-READ BOOK byand Harper's Bazaar,and Entertainment Weekly,and andand AM New York,and and a top read byand Elle, Fast Company, The Christian Science Monitor, Bustle, Shondaland, Popsugar, Refinery29, Bookish, Newsday, The Millions,and Asian American Writers'and Workshop,and andand HelloGiggles"Completing one [story] is like having lived an entire life, and then being born, breathless, into another."--Carmen Maria Machado"Captivating."--NPR"Gripping."--Los Angeles Review of Books"[A] remarkable debut . . . Sachdeva is seemingly fearless and her talent limitless."--AM New York"This phenomenal debut short-story collection is filled with stories that bring the otherworldly to life and examine the strangeness of humanity."--Bustle"So rich they read like dreams . . . They are enormous stories, not in length but in ambition, each an entirely new, unsparing world. Beautiful, draining--and entirely unforgettable."--Kirkus Reviewsand (starred review)