One World

🌷GIVEAWAY🌷 In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, we’re celebrating stories by Asian and Pacific Island authors that move, challenge, and stay with us long after the final page! One lucky winner will receive a curated collection of incredible reads including— ✨THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY by Kiran Desai ✨COME UNDONE by @mreddiehuang ✨DISAPPOINT ME by @nicoladinan ✨ANCHORED, ALIGNED, ACCOUNTABLE by @rare_coach To enter for a chance to win: - Like this post - Follow @randomhousebooks , @oneworldbooks , @thedialpress , and @hogarthbooks - Tag a friend you’d love to share these with [NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to U.S. residents 18+. 1 winner will be selected at random and contacted via DM by @randomhousebooks . Void where prohibited or restricted by law. Entries open until 11:59 PM ET May 28, 2026]

If you didn't already, you should know: We run Goodreads giveaways for all forthcoming One World books, and this one for THE FERVENT WHITES is closing very soon! ⁣ ⁣ Enter for your chance to win one of FIVE copies of THE FERVENT WHITES at the link in our bio.

Readers! Check out what's coming from One World this summer. From De'shawn Winslow's chilling small-town thriller to Carla Power's intimate biography of scholar and activist amina wadud, pick your perfect read for the beach, the plane, oh and that book club you've been meaning to start....⁣ ⁣ All books are available for preorder in the link in our bio!

GIVEAWAY CLOSED || We love a bundle!⁣ ⁣ BROTHERS OF THE GUN, brand new in paperback, is a bracingly immediate memoir of the Syrian war by journalist Marwan Hisham, illustrated by Molly Crabapple. And Molly's HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY reanimates a buried tradition of Jewish resistance that offers a language for solidarity in this age of fracture. ⁣ ⁣⁣ This bundle includes:⁣⁣ 📖 A copy of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY⁣ and BROTHERS OF THE GUN⁣ ✏️ An exclusive HWWLIOC zine⁣ 💌 A box of Molly's full-color art cards, "Can You See the New World Through Teargas?"⁣⁣ 🔖 A limited-edition bookmark⁣⁣ ⁣ For a chance to win:⁣⁣⁣ 1) Follow @oneworldbooks ⁣⁣and @or_books ⁣ 2) Like this post⁣⁣⁣ 3) Tag a comrade who will take turns reading these two books with you⁣ ⁣⁣ [NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to US residents, 18+. 1 winner will be selected at random and contacted via DM by @oneworldbooks . Void where prohibited or restricted by law. Entries close Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 11:59PM EST.]

#BREAKING: News, Barriers, and Stigmas - a memoir of choosing myself Out Jan 5, 2027 Order Now wherever books are sold - link in bio 🤎

For every kind of mother and every way of mothering 💐 ⁣ ⁣ This Mother’s Day, we’re celebrating mothers in all their forms: the tender, loving, messy, complicated, birthing and chosen chorus of them. ⁣ ⁣ Our selection honors those contradictions and challenges us to hold them. All are available now!

"When she wrote home to her family and friends, they were amazed by what she had managed to grow in America. It had become a standing joke originated by Kiet: She didn't speak the language of the Outer Country, but she understood its dirt."⁣ ⁣ Happy pub day to Davin Malasarn's THE OUTER COUNTRY!⁣ ⁣ We are so excited for you to step into the world of this heartfelt debut novel, a multigenerational story about a queer son, Ben, and the Thai immigrant family, Kamron, Siripon, and Manda, that shapes him. Their unraveling lives examine how love and inheritance travel across geographical borders, physical bodies, and the passing of time.⁣ ⁣ One of the many parts you'll encounter in this story is Manda's garden, built from what she carried with her overseas: seeds sewn into her hem that she carefully tended to in her new home. To honor this garden, we asked early readers to share their inheritances, building our own digital garden. From holiday traditions to Shiva Lingam stones, the many personal inheritances hold true to our reflections that inheritances come from places far and wide. Once they take root, they grow in ways we can't always predict.⁣ ⁣ We hope you find glimpses of yourself throughout this story. THE OUTER COUNTRY is available wherever books are sold.

🐚 She's coming out of her shell and she's doing just fine! Many congratulations to Pulitzer Prize finalist, CLAM DOWN by Anelise Chen.⁣ ⁣ “We've all heard the one about waking up as a cockroach—but what if a crisis turned you into a clam?”⁣ ⁣ After the dissolution of her marriage, a writer is transformed into a "clam" via typo after her mother keeps texting her to "clam down." The funny if unhelpful command forces her to ask what it means to "clam down" during crises—to retreat, hide, closeup, and stay silent. Idiomatically, we are said to "clam up" when we can't speak, and to "come out of our shell" when we reemerge, transformed.⁣ ⁣ Using a genre-defying structure and written in novelistic prose that draws from art, literature, and natural history, Anelise unfolds a complex story of interspecies connectedness, in which humans learn lessons of adaptation and survival from their mollusk kin. While it makes sense in certain situations to retreat behind fortified walls, the choice to do so also exacts a price. What is the price of building up walls? How can one take them back down when they are no longer necessary?⁣ ⁣ You can order a copy of CLAM DOWN via the link in our bio.

GIVEAWAY CLOSED GIVEAWAY / BUILD YOUR OWN BOOK CLUB 📚 We hear folks are already doing this—reading @mollycrabapple ’s HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY with friends and family, learning and celebrating and debating together. And what better gateway to organizing than a book club? If you’ve been wanting to talk about this book in community, this International Workers Day is your lucky day. We’re giving away TEN COPIES to ONE WINNER so that you can build the book club of your dreams. Who knows what else you’ll be capable of together? For a chance to win:⁣⁣ 1) Follow @oneworldbooks ⁣⁣ 2) Like this post⁣⁣ 3) Tag a comrade and tell us about your dream HWWLIOC book club ⁣ [NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to US residents, 18+. 1 winner will be selected at random and contacted via DM by @oneworldbooks . Void where prohibited or restricted by law. Entries close Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 11:59PM EST.]

Solidarity wasn’t a slogan for the Bund. It was a strategy for survival and a vision for the future, kept fiercely alive and projected globally even from the horrific epicenters of the Holocaust. "The Bund were live or die believers in solidarity, to the point where—during the great deportation from the Warsaw ghetto, when 90 percent of the ghetto's inmates were deported to Treblinka—the Bund was sending illegal radio messages to their representative in Britain demanding that Mahatma Gandhi be freed from British jail." The Jewish Labor Bund understood that true victory would require working together and fighting for each other across trades, cities, and borders. They were committed to improving the lives of workers everywhere. Today is May Day, and we hope your feed is full of calls to action. Here's one more: Watch the full video of Molly Crabapple's conversation with Morgan Bassichis at the link in our bio to hear more badass Bundist dispatches from HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY.

“In THE WHITE HOT, a woman, a mother, a daughter of immigrants, does the unthinkable: She leaves. April Soto has inherited a legacy of seeking from foremothers who had to ‘escape in order not to die.’ With unflinching and embodied prose, Quiara Alegría Hudes brings us along April’s wrenching and immersive journey. The novel’s epistolary narrative eschews ‘right vs. wrong’ to raise a more labyrinthine set of questions about rage, duty, and motherhood, to which there are no comfortable answers. At the heart of this masterful work is the most uncomfortable question of all: ‘How could love look like leaving?’” — 2026 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction jury citation for The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes (@oneworldbooks )

Listen up, readers! We asked One World author Davin Malasarn about the music behind the world of THE OUTER COUNTRY and he delivered! From the psychedelic guitars of Khruangbin's Kern Dala to the galactic sounds of Björk's Hyperballad, the music on the official THE OUTER COUNTRY playlist is the perfect collection to set you up before entering the lives of Ben, Manda, Siripon, and Kamron. Give the playlist a listen at the link in our bio. "Siripon took him back, pulling away the wrappings so that his skin could touch hers again. 'I want to bring him home,' she said. 'Look at us. We left as two, but we'll return as four.' She closed her eyes, letting herself slip away into sleep." -THE OUTER COUNTRY, out May 5, 2026