Cornucopia

A luminous, uncanny look at women’s lives in a world formed by late-stage capitalism, written by new and exciting voice Soraya Bay

Soraya Bay is making her debut with short story collection Cornucopia, published in January 2026.

The short stories are all centred around capitalism and how it affects women. Each short story pushes the bounda ries of the surreal, the political and the darkly humorous:

A woman becomes obsessed with her boyfriend’s lover and secretly slips into her life. At an art opening, a hungry visitor unwillingly becomes part of an artwork. Selfcare turns into Sisyphean obsession as one woman finds herself trapped in the bathroom. In a dystopian future, women must fight each other for food coupons in a brawl club. One after another, different homes drift by — places to live in, leave behind, survive.

In Cornucopia, Bay captures the narcissism and absurdi ty of the contemporary moment and our inability to escape capitalism, rendering women’s fight-or-flight responses within consumption culture as a glittering firework display of wit, despair, class tension, and sharp social observation. Her stories seize the fleeting, volatile moments where ca pital, desire, and power collide — and transform them into something startlingly original.

For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Leila Slimani, Cornucopia is an utterly captivating depiction of our cont emporary world: surreal, incisive and irrestibly alive.

Johanna Lindborg

Head of Agency | Fiction & Non-Fiction, Film & TV

johanna.lindborg@bonnierrights.se

+46 737 12 92 02

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