Transit Books

A full house for our first Transit Book Club salon, with translator Julia Nelsen () and on Fausta Cialente’s A VERY COLD WINTER!

The Transit Book Club Salon is an intimate, in-person series of behind-the-scenes conversations with our editors and contributors. Stay tuned for more coming soon ✨

We couldn’t be more grateful for the crowd that came out last night to celebrate with us, dressed to the nines. We love this community! Here’s to the next 10 and beyond! ❤️

Our special collector’s edition of Jacqueline Harpman’s I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN, with a new intro by , is out in the world today! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

“Mesmerizing . . . The book’s austere mystery—the atrophied and gelid world it depicts—provides a richly allusive consideration of human life.”—Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books

🌙 Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.

🌙 As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others’ escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

🌙 Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman’s modern classic, here in translation by , is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature.

Get your copy at the link in bio 🔗