"Dear Dead Husband" is an emotive novel that stands out for its honest portrayal of loss. In Carla Young’s elaborate novel "Dear Dead Husband", a young woman grapples with the loss of her husband by writing letters. After Eliza’s... Read More

In Sam K MacKinnon’s tender novel "The Body Riddle", a transmasculine illustrator struggles with discrimination and self-doubt as they grow into a better version of themselves. Lex is stuck. Their freelance work has dried up, their... Read More

In Mario Elías’s surreal, unflinching novel "Beloved Disciples", a man grieves the death of his first love. Simón experiences heartbreak after losing Albi, the love of his life. He sees visions in which Albi-clone corpses pile up... Read More

The adage that travel broadens the mind is tested in a comic, thoughtful fashion in Vincent Chu’s novel "Nice Places". Feeling aimless, Georgie quits his dead-end technology job to travel the world for a year and learn about himself.... Read More

In Israel Moya’s engaging coming-of-age novel "Monarchs in the Wild", an aimless teenage boy living in a place with few options considers life after high school. In a small California town in the 1990s, Cal is about to graduate high... Read More

Told via overlapping, time-jumping narratives, Laura Kasischke’s fragmentary novel, "The Lifeguard", centers small-town residents whose lives intertwine following a boy’s drowning. As the residents of Mission Hills, Michigan, grow... Read More

Set among a New Jersey synagogue’s staff and congregants in the month prior to the October 7, 2023 attacks, Nathaniel Popkin’s sobering novel "Partly Strong, Partly Broken" reveals the discord already roiling in liberal Jewish... Read More

A man works to justify his misdeeds, even as his new partner falls into unhealthy patterns, in "The Resilience of Red Thread", an insightful domestic novel. Domestic violence features into Catherine Marshall-Smith’s foreboding novel... Read More