Nimble and effusive, the tales of Sam Reese’s "Come the Tide" are an aesthete’s paradise, moving from haunting snapshots toward often amorphous conclusions. There are bronzed commas of bodies, vines climbing walls like elaborate... Read More

For LGBTQ Christians, especially those in evangelical churches, the decision to come out can mean being shunned, dismissed from church leadership or service positions, and made to feel eternally excluded from God’s love. Despite these... Read More

Ari Silverman’s violent encounter with a neighborhood boy leaves him questioning himself in Aaron Hamburger’s "Nirvana Is Here", a coming-of-age novel set outside Detroit amid the rise of grunge. It is a nostalgic, wrenching... Read More

In Lynn Lurie’s "Museum of Stones", a woman experiences parenting as a cross between profound love and constant, only sometimes low-grade terror. Swinging between the past and the present, the novel moves from the mother’s rough... Read More

In her novel "The Gifts We Keep", Katie Grindeland layers revelations over misunderstandings to spin a complex and ultimately unsustainable web of secrets between a family, their neighbor, and the ten-year-old girl who comes to stay with... Read More

Christine Aroney-Sine’s "The Gift of Wonder" invites childlike joy back into faith through creative practices. “I grew up with a serious, workaholic type of God,” Aroney-Sine begins. Many Christians can relate. For them, the book... Read More

Heidi Seaborn’s poetry collection "Give a Girl Chaos" wields everyday language with immense skill, resulting in an expansive work. These poems encompass the range of human emotion. They travel around the globe and from idea to idea,... Read More

"Terrible Omens" is a memoir of abuse and escape that is by turns humorous and tragic. Beginning with self-deprecating humor and moving toward devastation and finally strength, Alane Gray’s memoir "Terrible Omens" traces a marriage... Read More