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Books Our Editors Loved This Week
Gothic Fantasy
Weavingshaw
by Heba Al-Wasity
Al-Wasity’s haunting and romantic novel follows Leena Al-Sayer, a young refugee woman who can see ghosts, and St. Silas, a mysterious and supernatural Mafioso, as they embark on a quest that takes them through the urban underworld and eventually to the crumbling Weavingshaw estate, grappling with evils both supernatural (demons, possession) and horrifyingly real (displacement, the prison-industrial complex) along the way. Read our review.