1,000 Coils of Fear by Olivia Wenzel & Priscilla Layne (Trans.) by Wenzel, Olivia

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

A multilayered and rhythmic debut novel about her life as a Black German woman living in Berlin and New York during the chaos of the 2016 U.S. presidential election from playwright Olivia Wenzel. A young woman attends a play about the fall of the Berlin Wall—and realizes she is the only Black person in the audience. She and her boyfriend are hanging out by a lake outside Berlin—and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she is having sex with a stranger on the night of the 2016 presidential electi