This month, as immigration dominates the news cycle in the Americas, we’re sitting down with two groundbreaking yet unsettling novels about displacement, assimilation, and exile. The Renovation: A Novel Kenan Orhan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pp., $27 February 2026) If the premise of Kenan Orhan’s debut novel is decidedly Kafkaesque—“I don’t know by what accident the builders had managed it, but instead of a remodeled bathroom attached to my bedroom, they had installed a prison cell,” it

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