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However, when you buy somethg through our retail lks, we may earn an affiliate missn.</p></div></div></div><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eOdfIs"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layoutntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bectqB body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>There were so many fantastic LGBTQ+ books published this year that we uld probably spend the rt of the readg them. Tly, the proverbial floodgat have opened for queer wrg across all genr, om memoir to history to horror to romance. Whether you want to get hnted by gay ghosts, journey through outer space wh nonbary adventurers, or take a ep dive to <a href=" target="_blank">the history of the AIDS crisis</a>, there’s a 2022 release for you. Exceptnal queer reads were so plentiful, fact, that would be impossible to ll this list “the bt LGBTQ+ books of 2022” — bee, try as we might, we n't ver everythg.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-unslot nsumer-marketg-unslot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>So let’s e “favor” stead. A word like “favore” evok the childhood moment when many of first fell love wh readg, back when we bated the relative mers of different lors, feteria foods, and backpack signs. A book don’t have to be fe art to be one of your fav, though certaly n be; jt has to make you want to keep the dt jacket priste ndn and place a proment posn on your shelf. That’s why you’ll fd a <em>Gossip Girl</em> fanfic novella and a bgly funny astrology-themed romance livg on this list alongsi stirrg poetry llectns and ep div to <a href=" target="_blank">the polics of vis,</a> all of them handpicked by <em>Them</em> staffers and ntributors. Queer people nta multus: highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow, we want all, and we want <em>more</em>.</p><p>Bee as fantastic as this year was for LGBTQ+ books, we still have so far left to go before queer and trans stori of all typ are fully reprented. The publishg dtry is <a href=" target="_blank">overwhelmgly whe</a>, which turn impacts the opportuni afford to thors of lor. Even wh a surfe of new releas, LGBTQ+ lerature still don’t reflect the realy of our <a href=" target="_blank">creasgly diverse</a> muny. So let’s read queer books, and let’s keep mandg them. We’ve got a lot of lost time to make up for and a lot of shelv to fill. — <em>Samantha Allen</em></p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Our Wiv Unr the Sea</strong></em> <strong>by Julia Armfield</strong></div><div data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn eOBUm product-embed product-embed--image-left" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Our Wiv Unr the Sea by Julia Armfield","brand":{"name":""},"id":"6387f762134d75dfef9bb485","offers":[{"offerUrl":"25","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hSmufO kvPWzs bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embedntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb kcVySP"><div id="6387f762134d75dfef9bb485" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd jsgzTv fCVfVZ">Our Wiv Unr the Sea by Julia Armfield</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embedcta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-listoffer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$25atBookshop"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="6387f762134d75dfef9bb485" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ gJNxgH dBEvYj button button--primary-pair product-offerbuy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG buttonlabel"><span>$25</span> at Bookshop</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>Four words: Lbian ep sea horror. <a href=" target="_blank"><em>Our Wiv Unr the Sea</em></a> opens as Miri’s mare blogist wife Leah fally returns home after a submare accint left her and her team strand on the ocean floor for months. As the novel slowly reveals what happened durg Leah’s time away, soon be clear that she’s brought a part of the ocean’s murky pths back wh her. 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Seventeen and thrilled to beg explorg the cy’s Black queer scene, Trey quickly fds a kd of home at Mt. Morris, a Harlem bathhoe. It’s there that he meets Bayard Rt, civil rights in and gay man, and the two embark on a tenr iendship that awakens and nourish Trey’s polil nscns. When Trey begs gettg volved AIDS activism, he disvers how msy such work n be — as well as how val and necsary. — <em>Ilana Masad</em></p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Helen Hoe</strong></em> <strong>by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya</strong></div><div data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn eOBUm product-embed product-embed--image-left" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Helen Hoe by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya","brand":{"name":""},"id":"6387fbf9134d75dfef9bb48b","offers":[{"offerUrl":"15","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hSmufO kvPWzs bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embedntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb kcVySP"><div id="6387fbf9134d75dfef9bb48b" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd jsgzTv fCVfVZ">Helen Hoe by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embedcta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-listoffer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$15atBookshop"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="6387fbf9134d75dfef9bb48b" aria-label="$15 at Bookshop" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ gJNxgH dBEvYj button button--primary-pair product-offerbuy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG buttonlabel"><span>$15</span> at Bookshop</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>Let’s get one thg straight: <a href=" target="_blank">all ghosts are gay</a>. I uld waste words explag why, or I uld jt send you to <em>Autostraddle</em>, where there is helpfully already an article lled <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“10 Reasons Why All Ghosts Are Gay.”</a> When to queer and sapphic sire, <em>Autostraddle</em> gets — and unsurprisgly, so do s managg edor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya. Her book <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Helen Hoe</em></a>, which lands somewhere length between a short story and a novella, is a geoly nstcted gay ghost tale, lite and hntg. Genuely erotic before leang full-tilt to horror, <em>Helen Hoe</em> follows a young woman as she travels to meet her partner’s parents for the first time. Whout spoilg anythg, I’ll jt say that everyone this story has baggage, not jt our narrator. — <em>Samantha Allen</em></p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Virology</strong></em> <strong>by Joseph Osmundson</strong></div><div data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn eOBUm product-embed product-embed--image-left" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Virology by Joseph Osmundson","brand":{"name":""},"id":"6386822228dc7281c6599ba6","offers":[{"offerUrl":"16","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hSmufO kvPWzs bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embedntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb kcVySP"><div id="6386822228dc7281c6599ba6" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd jsgzTv fCVfVZ">Virology by Joseph Osmundson</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embedcta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-listoffer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$16atBookshop"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="6386822228dc7281c6599ba6" aria-label="$16 at Bookshop" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ gJNxgH dBEvYj button button--primary-pair product-offerbuy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG buttonlabel"><span>$16</span> at Bookshop</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>Before readg <a href=" target="_blank">this book</a>, I only knew Joseph Osmundson om his role as -host of the <em>Food for Thot</em> podst (which cintally I also remend). I did not know the extent of his knowledge about vis and microblogy more broadly, nor that he was a Clil Assistant Profsor of Blogy at New York Universy. Both his science and his wrg chops are on full display this stunner of an say llectn, which elegantly illtrat how microspilly ty vis like COVID-19 and HIV, which lead a simple existence, n have enormoly plited effects on the socpolil (and ultimately terpersonal) human worlds. The way Osmundson draws meang om a queer experience of vis is credibly movg, ultimately rultg a rage-filled ll to actn. Not to mentn, ’s some of the most betiful wrg I’ve read a long time. — <em>Sarah Neilson</em></p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Manhunt</strong></em> <strong>by Gretchen Felker-Mart</strong></div><div data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn eOBUm product-embed product-embed--image-left" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Mart","brand":{"name":""},"id":"6387fa2a539153fb39373f","offers":[{"offerUrl":"17","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hSmufO kvPWzs bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embedntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb kcVySP"><div id="6387fa2a539153fb39373f" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd jsgzTv fCVfVZ">Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Mart</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embedcta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-listoffer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$17atBookshop"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="6387fa2a539153fb39373f" aria-label="$17 at Bookshop" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ gJNxgH dBEvYj button button--primary-pair product-offerbuy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG buttonlabel"><span>$17</span> at Bookshop</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>In orr to grip me, a book has to have what we all need om fictn, or any kd of storytellg, really: pellg characters, beup imagatn and a reason to keep readg. 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Come for the credible storytellg but stay engaged by the vg, clean prose. — <em>Mathew Rodriguez</em></p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella</strong></em> <strong>by Charlie Markbreer</strong></div><div data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn eOBUm product-embed product-embed--image-left" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella by Charlie Markbreer","brand":{"name":""},"id":"6387f4539153fb393744","offers":[{"offerUrl":"18","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hSmufO kvPWzs bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embedntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb kcVySP"><div id="6387f4539153fb393744" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd jsgzTv fCVfVZ">Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella by Charlie Markbreer</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embedcta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-listoffer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$18atBookshop"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="6387f4539153fb393744" aria-label="$18 at Bookshop" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ gJNxgH dBEvYj button button--primary-pair product-offerbuy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG buttonlabel"><span>$18</span> at Bookshop</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>Like many queer people, I grew up readg (and ocsnally wrg) fan fictn. 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It’s also about dividual and llective grief and lerally beg alive and love at what is and has been and will be the end of the world. — <em>Sarah Neilson</em></p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Patricia Wants to Cuddle</strong></em> <strong>by Samantha Allen</strong></div><div data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn eOBUm product-embed product-embed--image-left" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen","brand":{"name":""},"id":"62c72ba84699023553206bbd","offers":[{"offerUrl":"25","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hSmufO kvPWzs bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embedntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb kcVySP"><div id="62c72ba84699023553206bbd" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd jsgzTv fCVfVZ">Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embedcta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-listoffer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$25atBookshop"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="62c72ba84699023553206bbd" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ gJNxgH dBEvYj button button--primary-pair product-offerbuy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG buttonlabel"><span>$25</span> at Bookshop</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>Sometim I e across a book that feels like was wrten jt for me. <a href="><em>Them</em> edor</a> Samantha Allen’s horror-edy novel <a href=" target="_blank"><em>Patricia Wants To Cuddle</em></a> ticked all the box for a queer horror nerd and realy TV obssive like myself. When the falists of a datg realy show arrive at a remote island the Pacific Northwt, they are met wh a surprise hirsute rint to gory rults. Allen masterfully swch between big lghs, si baseball knowledge of realy TV, bloody viscera, msage-board tective work and (perhaps the most surprisg) a tenr queer love story. Love letter terlus om two teenage girls the ’70s serve as rpe om the rnage and give the novel an unexpected soul and kdns. Failg that, the jacket artwork is absolutely stunng and sure to ve some attentn om a cur and perhaps cute stranger. — <em>Juan Velasquez</em></p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Nuclear Fay</strong></em> <strong>by Joseph Han</strong></div><div data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn eOBUm product-embed product-embed--image-left" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Nuclear Fay by Joseph Han","brand":{"name":""},"id":"63884f28539153fb393751","offers":[{"offerUrl":"24","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hSmufO kvPWzs bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embedntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb kcVySP"><div id="63884f28539153fb393751" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd jsgzTv fCVfVZ">Nuclear Fay by Joseph Han</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embedcta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-listoffer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$24atBookshop"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="63884f28539153fb393751" aria-label="$24 at Bookshop" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ gJNxgH dBEvYj button button--primary-pair product-offerbuy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG buttonlabel"><span>$24</span> at Bookshop</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>Joseph Han’s but novel is a multigeneratnal fay-saga-cum-ghost-story set South Korea and Hawai‘i the months leadg up to 2018’s famo false missile alert. 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