Victor LaValle's book recommendations

The acclaimed author recommends works by Samantha Hunt, Rivers Solomon and more

Victor La Valle.
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Novelist Victor LaValle tapped 25 other writers of speculative fiction to create the new anthology A People's Future of the United States. Below, the author of The Changeling and The Ballad of Black Tom names six favorite recent works.

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (2014).

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