It’s easy to be overlooked or ignored if you’re quiet and well behaved like Little E. Still, his classmates—an alphabet of rosy cheeked, multi-hued lower case letters—learn just how important one silent letter can be. The... Read More

Setsuko’s Secret is an intense, personal chronicle of the unconscionable internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Soon after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066,... Read More

In Tziporah Cohen’s "No Vacancy", an eleven-year-old leaves New York City after her parents buy a rundown motel upstate. At the Jewel Motor Inn, in New York’s Finger Lakes region, Miriam shares a grimy room, painted a color... Read More

In Yishai Sarid’s dark, thoughtful novel "The Memory Monster", a Holocaust historian struggles with the weight of his profession. The story takes the form of a letter written by the anonymous narrator to explain an unspecified event.... Read More

"A Series of Fortunate Events" is a lighthearted exploration of the roles that chance and coincidence play in human existence. That there is life on Earth at all, let alone human life, is a happy accident, Sean B. Carroll writes.... Read More

A family holiday takes a turn for the strange and tragic in Marie NDiaye’s novel "That Time of Year". On the last day of their summer vacation, Herman’s wife and son go missing. His only chance of finding them, according to his sole... Read More

Eddy Boudel Tan’s debut novel "After Elias", whose climatic prologue is arresting, rides on a trajectory wherein every mystery solved begets a dozen more. Coen Caraway descends upon Isla de Espejos several days before his groom-to-be... Read More

Its magic pure and its mysteries primordial, Lars Mytting’s novel "The Bell in the Lake" is a tour de force set in the untamed wilds of Norway. Fresh out of seminary, Kai Schweigaard receives an assignment to head a remote church in... Read More