A young man reckons with racism, slavery, and his family’s history of trauma in the revealing novel "Ghost Gun". In cc Eck’s layered novel "Ghost Gun", a mixed-race family grapples with the complexities of intergenerational trauma... Read More

The subtle proverb-based tale Wings & Roots weaves wondrous cultural connections between nature and humanity. An entrancing illustrated literary tale, Capella Cao’s Wings & Roots utilizes Chinese proverbs to tell the story of... Read More

The strange and surreal take center stage in Kristen Gleason’s beguiling short story collection "The Wallet and Other Thefts". The characters are often confused or detached, estranged observers of garden workers or weddings. In “The... Read More

About home and migration in the face of displacement, Elin Anna Labba’s haunting, elegant novel "The Home of the Drowned" memorializes indigenous Sámi culture in Lapland. Three Sámi women—Iŋgá; her mother, Rávdná; and her Aunt... Read More

An armed resistance breaks out in the mountains, and a journalist makes plans to document the stories of those fighting, in Aksil Azergui’s rousing novel "Bread of the Ravens", a literary exploration of life amid the indigenous Amazigh... Read More

In Claire Fuller’s haunting thriller "Hunger and Thirst", a teenager’s isolation in a decrepit, abandoned house coincides with a grisly murder. In the summer of 1987, sixteen-year-old Ursula moves from foster homes and a halfway... Read More

Douglas Stuart’s ruminative novel "John of John" breaks through the surface of a dysfunctional family to expose deeper ties and shocking secrets. After years of experimentation in his big-city art school, Cal returns to his... Read More

Set in the early 1990s, Shasta Grant’s riveting novel "When We Were Feral" follows three adolescent girls venturing through loss, exploration, and unsettling discoveries. In a New Hampshire river town, Maggie and Sarah look forward to... Read More