Compilers by Ayan Pratap

A uniquely strange novel about three people whose connection seems to span across multiple lifetimes and worlds, Ayan Pratap’s Compilers is a mysterious, slow-burn novel full of murder, sacrificial ceremonies, and meditative trances. An elderly rideshare driver down on his luck crosses paths with a witchy woman seeking her son, setting off a chaotic journey across portals to the unknown. A heady mix of visionary fiction with touches of fantasy and character-driven drama, Compilers will appeal to readers who like their horror to lean heavily on occult and esoteric themes. The novel may at times be too obvious in its messaging, but Pratap effectively weaves together complex, multilayered ideas to great effect, for an engrossing novel that is at once about other realities and human potential.