by Anca L. Szilágyi

“A waking dream of a book. . . .This one is going to stay with me for a long time.”

—Kris Waldherr, bestselling author of The Lost History of Dreams and Unnatural Creatures

As the economy collapses around her in 2008 New York City, recent art school graduate Binnie takes a job as a paralegal to pay the bills. As her art projects languish on the back burner, she begins to obsessively imagine her daily grind expressed in unsettling and sometimes violent dioramas. Somehow, someday, she’ll find the time to construct them. In the meantime, she’ll walk this unsatisfying tightrope between financial stability and the life of a working artist.

But after a shocking and surreal death occurs at the law firm, Binnie wonders if her frustration is pushing her darkest imaginings into life.

Daughters of the Air and Dreams Under Glass

by Anca L. Szilágyi

Discover the riveting and sublime work of Anca L. Szilágyi in this two-book bundle featuring her complete novel collection. This bundle will ship the week of September 19, 2022.

Daughters of the Air

When Pluta’s father, a university professor, disappears amid the turmoil of Argentina’s Dirty War, her family’s idyllic life crumbles. Unsure where he’s been taken or whether he’s even alive, Pluta and her mother struggle to cope with the disappearance—and to voice their fears and pain to one another.

Exiled to a boarding school in New York and churning with unresolved grief, Pluta runs away to Brooklyn in 1980. Her harrowing and surreal experiences on the dangerous streets soon threaten to destroy her completely—but may also at last break through the suffocating silence that has held her family captive.

Magical realist imagery infuses the landscape of devastation wrought by political repression in Anca L. Szilagyi’s searing coming-of-age novel, which Shelf Awareness calls “a striking debut from a writer to watch.”

Dreams Under Glass

As the economy collapses around her in 2008 New York City, recent art school graduate Binnie takes a job as a paralegal to pay the bills. As her art projects languish on the back burner, she begins to obsessively imagine her daily grind expressed in unsettling and sometimes violent dioramas. Somehow, someday, she’ll find the time to construct them. In the meantime, she’ll walk this unsatisfying tightrope between financial stability and the life of a working artist.

But after a shocking and surreal death occurs at the law firm, Binnie wonders if her frustration is pushing her darkest imaginings into life.

by Anca L. Szilágyi

"A chilling and beautiful novel that has left its indelible mark on me—I am simply in awe of Anca Szilagyi's prose."

—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

When Pluta’s father, a university professor, disappears amid the turmoil of Argentina’s Dirty War, her family’s idyllic life crumbles. Unsure where he’s been taken or whether he’s even alive, Pluta and her mother struggle to cope with the disappearance—and to voice their fears and pain to one another.

Exiled to a boarding school in New York and churning with unresolved grief, Pluta runs away to Brooklyn in 1980. Her harrowing and surreal experiences on the dangerous streets soon threaten to destroy her completely—but may also at last break through the suffocating silence that has held her family captive.

Magical realist imagery infuses the landscape of devastation wrought by political repression in Anca L. Szilagyi’s searing coming-of-age novel, which Shelf Awareness calls “a striking debut from a writer to watch.”