Books like The Troika by Stepan Chapman

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Inspector Tyador Borlú journeys from Besźel to Ul Qoma to investigate the murder of a woman, navigating two distinct cities that both share one physical space yet have separate identities.

Oedipa Maas, executor of Pierce Inverarity’s will, uncovers a hidden network of conspiracies, jazz clubs, and beatnik culture while navigating her own psyche.

A Black man's journey through racism, identity and activism in 1940s Harlem, culminating in a revelatory escape from the streets to self-knowledge.

In Bellona, a strange catastrophe pits fragmented time and reality against its inhabitants, drawing a nameless young protagonist, the Kid, into a city where the marginalized survive beneath two moons.

"Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Karen Yamashita presents an L.A. where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of highway struck by disaster. The Harbor Freeway crisis becomes the apex of events - caused by an orange, which has been brought to L.A. from just north of Mazatlan, dragging with it the Tropic of Cancer." "Rafaela, caretaking Gabriel's getaway home in Mexico, discovers a dealer of human body parts and flees north, joining a performer/laborer named Arcangel. Meanwhile, Gabriel, a news reporter in L.A., has been following leads in which seemingly unrelated events mysteriously unite as the homeless take up residence in abandoned Mercedes, lowriders, and Cads, and an aged Asian American sansei conducts symphonies from a freeway overpass." "Emi, T.V. executive and Gabriel's girlfriend, along with Buzzworm, his connection to the streets, get caught in the middle of this mounting wildfire just as the cast of characters - diverse as the city itself - assembles for the final event. Tropic of Orange is an apocalypse of race, class, and culture, fanned by the media under the harsh L.A. sun."--BOOK JACKET.