Albert M. Camarillo’s warm memoir "Compton in My Soul" traces the source of his ethics and values to a Mexican immigrant barrio in Compton, California, where he learned to envision a better, brighter future. Despite all of the forces... Read More

A woman’s death brings grief, anger, and eventual peace to her loved ones in Taha Kehar’s novel "No Funeral for Nazia". In life, Nazia always insisted on going her own way. In death, she continues that tradition, leaving scandalous... Read More

An indefinable connection grows between a reluctant bodyguard and a yakuza’s daughter in Akira Otani’s novel "The Night of Baba Yaga". Shindo’s life is far from perfect, but when she is pressed into service as a chauffeur and... Read More

In Eugene Lim’s novel Fog & Car, a divorced couple learns to live without one another. After their seven-year marriage ends, Fog and Car retreat to different parts of the country to lick their wounds. Adrift and unsure of what to... Read More

A much-anticipated addition to the mystical, queer-normative world of the Birdverse, R. B. Lemberg’s "Yoke of Stars" is a moving tale about the transformative power of stories. Stone Orphan, an apprentice assassin, awaits their first... Read More

Intergenerational family secrets reemerge in Defne Suman’s devastating novel "Summer Heat". Melike is a Turkish art historian who agrees to guide Petro, a documentarian, through Byzantine churches. But intimacy with Petro challenges... Read More

Lynne Spriggs O’Connor’s memoir "Elk Love" pays homage to the challenging, beautiful land that brought her deep, enduring love. A scholar and museum curator fascinated by Native American art, city-bred O’Connor had visions of... Read More

"Mississippi Swindle" is Shad White’s gripping account of the largest public fraud in Mississippi’s history—the misuse of nearly $100 million in federal welfare funds. Appointed Mississippi’s state auditor in 2018, White led the... Read More