The short stories collected in M Lin’s encompassing book "The Memory Museum" concern the conflicts and commonalities experienced by Chinese nationals, who reflect upon the past, travel abroad, emigrate, or remain within their home... Read More

Infused with family stories and historical tidbits about Southern cuisine, Chef Ron Hsu’s bountiful, celebratory, and edifying cookbook "Down South + East" marries flavors from across the world in its irresistible dishes. A La... Read More

Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel "Kill Dick" parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and apathy—the book accumulates exaggerations of... Read More

Existing friendships are revitalized, and new ones flourish, in Melody Carlson’s cheerful Christian novel "All Booked Up", about women who share a Victorian home. Riva, an isolated widow in her sixties, is a bibliophile who is... Read More

Queer Black author and professor Tisa Bryant’s bold, inventive autobiographical essay collection is about memory, grief, home, and belonging. The hybrid essays combine poetry, stream-of-consciousness prose, scraps of dialogue, lists of... Read More

In Victoria Tatum’s timely ensemble novel "More Than Any River", generations of farmers and workers along the Sacramento River cope with formidable threats to their region and way of life. Covering more than a century, this... Read More

A cookbook replete with light bulb moments for the ingredients you quite possibly already have on hand, Kate Young’s "Dinner at Mine?" is a wisdom-filled, enterprising cookbook. Young’s warm introduction reveals that she always... Read More

Julian Hattem’s "Shelter from the Storm" is an insightful, sobering overview of the past, present, and future of human movement in the age of climate change. The book’s thesis that “We Have Always Been Climate Migrants” frames... Read More