Makenna Goodman is the author of two novels, Helen of Nowhere, which was named a Favorite Book of 2025 by Granta and The Paris Review, and The Shame, which was named a White Review and Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020.
She has written for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Catapult, Harvard Review, the White Review, BOMB, MOUSSE, RA Magazine, and more.
She has written for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Catapult, Harvard Review, the White Review, BOMB, MOUSSE, RA Magazine, and more.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Makenna Goodman recommends

Lungfish (2022)
Meghan Gilliss
"Lungfish is a lyrical force, a narrative which moves in rhythm reminiscent of the tide, with sentences that sting in their salty complexity and yet are also soothing, like a balm."
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