"Weeaboo" is an exuberant coming-of-age story about three friends and the immense changes they experience during their senior year of high school. James is a biracial Japanese teenager who’s under a lot of family pressure to get into a... Read More

"The Last One" is a mesmerizing, semiautobiographical novel about the meanings of identity, family, and sexuality. The story of eponymous character Fatima Daas is slight, but there’s depth and substance in her struggles to find paths... Read More

Eugen Bacon’s speculative short story collection "Danged Black Thing" ignites the dreadful reverberations of sacrifice and the unflinching trajectory of choices set in motion. By embedding horror into the realm of possibilities, Bacon... Read More

In Okezie Nwọka’s dazzling and disquieting novel "God of Mercy", battles between gods reignite a war between religions. Ijeoma, a mute girl in Ichulu, can fly. The dibia, a religious figure of the village, understands this to be the... Read More

Set in a dystopian future, the novel "The Hush" is filled by instances of surveillance and suspended human rights. Eerie and prescient, it covers the lengths that a family will go to protect themselves. A mysterious plague appears in... Read More

In her memoir "Heir to the Crescent Moon", Sufiya Abdur-Rahman works to reconcile the faith of her heart with her upbringing. Abdur-Rahman always knew she was Muslim, but her introduction to the faith was open to interpretation. Her... Read More

The depths of madness, love, and myth converge in "The Hidden", Melanie Golding’s superlative fairytale-infused thriller. For Joanna, a detective and a satisfying heroine, an attempted murder and a missing child have hit close to home.... Read More

Alexandra Chauran’s "Modern Guide to Mudras" suggests that the right hand gestures can bring about spiritual change. Rooted in ancient wisdom, mudras are “symbolic, ritual gestures meant to evoke a state of consciousness and to... Read More