In A. D. Nauman’s unflinching bildungsroman "Down the Steep", a girl struggles with her morality during the civil rights movement. In 1963 Virginia, Willa wants nothing more... Read More

"The Penny Mansions" is a charming historical novel wherein lovable townspeople rally to save their home. In Steven Mayfield’s rollicking period novel "The Penny Mansions", a... Read More

A couple and a motel owner whose paths only cross once a year process their grief via alternating perspectives in Janet Goldberg’s novel The Proprietor’s Song. Every spring,... Read More

Set in Edwardian England, Stephanie Cowell’s novel "The Boy in the Rain" concerns the passionate romance between a painter and a divorced writer. After a traumatic exchange... Read More

In Mimi Herman’s lush historical novel "The Kudzu Queen", a clever Southern teenager’s sense of justice inspires her to expose the truth about a magnetic newcomer. Mattie is... Read More

In the delightful multigenerational novel "Delphic Oracle, USA", a town is put on the map by renegades in the 1920s and flourishes for their descendants. Checkered portraits of... Read More

In "Loving the Dead and Gone", Judith Turner-Yamamoto’s multivoiced novel, the death of a young man provokes women in a rural North Carolina town to revisit their unmet... Read More

Memory and traumas interfere with romantic love in Martha Anne Toll’s historical novel "Three Muses". John, an American psychoanalyst, is in Paris when he is handed a ticket... Read More

David R. Roth’s captivating novel "The Femme Fatale Hypothesis" involves a curious friendship between Kelsey and Rose Geddes and their next-door neighbor, June. The Geddeses... Read More

In Marlin Barton’s historical novel "Children of Dust", a family struggles with the repercussions of the death of their newborn. In the 1880s in Alabama, Rafe has multiple... Read More

An elliptical novel that integrates the death of a lineage into a reflection on personal mortality, Kat Meads’s "Dear DeeDee" recasts the unresolved stories of a Southern... Read More

Next to dazzling, bohemian Scarlet, self-effacing Mel seems circumspect. In the episodic vignettes of Joan Frank’s painstaking character study, "The Outlook for Earthlings",... Read More