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Astra House is a literary imprint dedicated to publishing authors across genres and from around the

We value works that are authentic, ask new questions, present counter-narratives and original thinking, challenge our assumptions, and broaden and deepen our understanding of the world. Our mission is to advocate for authors who experience their subject deeply and personally, and who have a strong point of view; writers who represent multifaceted expressions of intellectual thought and personal ex

perience, and who can introduce readers to new perspectives about their everyday lives as well as the lives of others.

08/05/2025

✨Happy pub day to SOLITARIA by Eliana Alves Cruz, translated by Benjamin Brooks!

Destined to be a modern classic; SOLITARIA is a literary masterpiece and a globally, perennially resonant social critique. A story of two Black women, a mother and a daughter, working as criminally underpaid live-in maids to a wealthy family in a large, contemporary Brazilian city. They take turns recounting their lives through the prisms of the hidden rooms they inhabit, from which a portrait of a shocking crime emerges, raising questions of loyalty, care, and the possibility of liberation in colonialism’s long shadow.

Renowned Canadian poet Dionne Brand praises SOLITARIA calling it a “rare alchemy” and acclaimed public intellectual Saidiya Hartman calls it a “gem.”

Now available wherever books are sold, get your copy today, and step into the world of SOLITARIA.

08/01/2025

🍃 GIVEAWAY 🍃

Our Fall 2025 season officially starts this upcoming Tuesday with two amazing titles! To celebrate we are starting the weekend with a fun giveaway! One lucky reader will win all four of our upcoming fiction titles!

SOLITARIA by Eliana Alves Cruz, translated by Benjamin Brooks

DUSK by Robbie Arnott

UNDERSPIN by E.Y. Zhao

HAPPY BAD by Delaney Nolan

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Giveaway ends Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM ET.

‼️ U.S. ENTRIES ONLY ‼️

07/31/2025

✨ GALAPAGOS by Fátima Vélez, translated by Hannah Kauders is now available for requests on Netgalley & Edelweiss! ✨

07/29/2025

🏓 Are you ready for the next great table tennis novel?

UNDERSPIN is an intimidate, bruising coming-of-age novel about Ryan Lo, a charismatic and enigmatic table tennis prodigy, and his short and tumultuous life as seen through the eyes of those pulled into his orbit.

Early readers are raving about Zhao’s prose calling it “beautiful,” “thrilling,” and “a marvel.”

Preorder today and see for yourself why UNDERSPIN is an “eruption of a debut.”

Available wherever books are sold on September 23, 2025.

07/28/2025

✨ THE RENT COLLECTORS by Jesse Katz is now available in paperback!

Winner of the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction, a teeth clenching and breathless narrative that explicates the difficult and proud lives of undocumented black market workers who are being extorted by the gangs and fined by the city of LA—in other words, exploited by two sets of rent collectors.

Reading guide also available for download on astrahouse.com.

07/25/2025

We celebrate LGBTQ+ reads every day!

🏳️‍🌈 GIVEAWAY 🏳️‍🌈

One lucky winner will get a copy of ARE YOU HAPPY? By Lori Ostlund.

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Giveaway ends Monday, July 28, 2025 at 10am ET

*U.S. & CAN entries only!

07/22/2025

✨ BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT, JESUS IS ALIVE by Melissa Lozada-Oliva is “beautiful,” “hilariously and deliriously odd,” and a “wild ride.”

A short story collection about faith, delusion, and the demons that can’t get enough of us.

See what early readers are saying about the anticipated collection that’s for the sinner in us all!

Available wherever books are sold September 2, 2025.

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07/16/2025

⛰️ From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of THE RAIN HERON, DUSK is a masterful, mythical tale of loss, redemption, and survival.

See what reviewers are saying about DUSK and its propulsive, moody, and atmospheric take on the Western.

Publishing August 5, 2025

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07/15/2025

✨ Happy pub day to BLOWFISH by Kyung-ran Jo, translated from the Korean by Chi Young Kim.

Called “a deft delve into the intricacies of love and art” by Kerry Cardozo in the Chicago Reader, BLOWFISH brings the work of one of Korea’s celebrated talents to an English-speaking audience.

You can pick up a copy of the novel that Vulture, Bustle, Literary Hub, the Chicago Review of Books, and more have named “most-anticipated” wherever books are sold today!

07/14/2025

👄 GIVEAWAY 👄

In honor of the recent Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize shortlist announcement we are giving two lucky winners a copy of MOUTH by

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Giveaway ends Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 9:00am ET!

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07/09/2025

✨ SOLITARIA by Eliana Alves Cruz, translated by Benjamin Brooks is being called a “gem,” “thoughtful,” and “a work of deep quality.”

A liberation novel of the most rousing order. SOLITARIA is told through direct, agile and evocative prose painting an unflinching portrait of modern-day Brazil and of its legacies of colonial violence haunting rooms across the country, both big and small.

See what early readers are saying of this powerful novel. Available wherever books are sold August 5, 2025.

PREORDER TODAY!

07/08/2025

✨ Congratulations to MOUTH by for being shortlisted for the 2025 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize given to “promising, up-and-coming women writers.”

The prize is awarded by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester.

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