Boulder: Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize

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

Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname “Boulder.” When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can’t bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn’t know how to say no—and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien. With motherhood changing Samsa in