Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

New York City Book Award 

Finalist for the Bridge Book Award

Finalist for the Center For Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize

The Best Debut Books of 2024 from Debutiful

 

 

"Misinterpretation subtly blurs the distinction between help and harm. We found it propulsive, unsettling, and strangely human."

― Booker Prize 2025 Judges

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"Ledia Xhoga has prepared us to consider each decision from every possible vantage point. The satisfaction is in accepting the baton of exquisite ambivalence as she takes it from the narrator’s hands and passes it to the reader."

― Times Literary Supplement

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​​"A nuanced exploration of communication failures, blurred boundaries and the emotional cost of unchecked altruism."
― Observer (UK)

"An exceptionally rich novel."
― Full Stop

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​"Powerful and nuanced."
― Electric Literature
 

​"Compassionate and well written, giving all of us a chance to consider how our histories impact the decisions we make today."
― Book Page

 

 

 

 

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