A writer searches for her vanished cousin in "The Year of the Wind", Karina Pacheco Medrano’s unforgettable novel about the personal and generational costs of political chaos.... Read More

The world transforms around a strange, charismatic girl who was trained to keep her eyes on the skies in the bizarre, wondrous novel "The High Heaven". Orphaned when the cult... Read More

Chloé Caldwell’s inventive memoir "Trying" recreates her years of attempting to become pregnant. Caldwell devoted much of her thirties to trying to get pregnant via... Read More

Generations of women face the consequences of their dark bargains in Irene Solà’s wickedly sumptuous novel "I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness". In a prewar... Read More

Lyrical and alarming, Elisa Levi’s fabulistic novella That’s All I Know unveils a small town’s ominous goings-on. Little Lea lives with her disabled sister and her mother... Read More

In Shubha Sunder’s novel "Optional Practical Training", an Indian immigrant tries to make a home in the US. After completing her undergraduate degree, Pavrita begins teaching... Read More

In Youssef Rakha’s bold novel "The Dissenters", a son pieces together his mother’s Egyptian story. Following his mother’s death, Nour experiences visions of her in their... Read More

Adèle Rosenfeld’s "Jellyfish Have No Ears" is a poignant novel in which lost hearing reshapes a woman’s understanding of the world. Louise has always been somewhat... Read More

The unnamed narrator of Sheena Patel’s edgy novel I’m a Fan is a woman of color and a stalker. Although she lives with her doting boyfriend, the writer is having an affair... Read More

Kapka Kassabova’s dreamy and meandering book "Elixir" covers her travels through the Mesta River region of Bulgaria in search of a cure for the pains of the human condition.... Read More

In Nathacha Appanah’s luminous novel "The Sky above the Roof", a teenager’s impulsive, confused actions lead to his imprisonment. Formidable, intense Phoenix was forced to... Read More

In Dorothy Tse’s novel "Owlish", a bizarre love affair upends a respectable man’s dull but orderly life in a city that is anything but ordinary. Perhaps it was inevitable... Read More