When people talk about Toni Morrison, they usually talk about Beloved and Song of Solomon — or to a lesser extent, The Bluest Eye and Sula. Those are great books, but one of my favorites by her is Tar Baby. I feel like it is on par with her most famous four. I think it gets overshadowed because it came out right in between Song of Solomon and Beloved!

Your description makes me think of Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty!

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. Thought it was outstanding, have never read anything like it!

I don’t know if you’re looking for recommendations, but one of my favorite examples of this is in The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel!

I like this too — if you wouldn’t mind, I’d love the titles!

I’ll give you a few I’ve liked also:

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher — from the perspective of a professor, told entirely in the form of letters of recommendation he has to write (for students applying to grad school, colleagues seeking promotions, etc)

Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke — absurdist satire where a guy’s consciousness is uploading into his company’s Slack workplace. Told entirely through Slack messages.

Yeats is Dead — a murder mystery written by 15 Irish writers. Each author did a different chapter.

Sounds like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehito Hindman — a memoir written mostly in second person