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A Song over Miskwaa Rapids

by Rebecca Foster

Linda LeGarde Grover’s graceful novel "A Song over Miskwaa Rapids", set on Ojibwe land in Minnesota, pairs a sordid mystery with supernatural influences. Mozhay Point, a recurring locale from Grover’s two previous novels, hosts an... Read More

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The Berry Pickers

by Michelle Anne Schingler

While working as migrants, a Mi’kmaq family is rent by their daughter’s disappearance in Amanda Peters’s decades-spanning, heartrending novel "The Berry Pickers". Even before Ruthie disappeared from the Maine field where her... Read More

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Journey of Sea, Heart, and Land

by Mari Carlson

In the epic novel "Journey of Sea, Heart, and Land", intertwined people are encouraged to embrace a future that “exists in the present.” In Jaime Enrique Gutierrez Perez’s coming-of-age novel "Journey of Sea, Heart, and Land", the... Read More

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Just Arrived

by Grace Rogers

"Just Arrived" is an eye-opening novel in which an immigrant learns to live in a new, strange world. A Nigerian immigrant runs into challenges while navigating his new home in Bona Udeze’s novel "Just Arrived". Emeka begins the long... Read More

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Welcome to New Haven

by Mari Carlson

In the series-opening spiritual novel "Welcome to New Haven", an ordinary office worker awakens to his superpowers. An ambassador from New Haven retrieves the man who can save the world in Rashan Bryant’s fantasy novel "Welcome to New... Read More

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Value Village

by Debbie McCarthy

In the novel "Value Village", an unsuccessful collector continues to pursue his passions despite multiple disappointments. In Yann Zhao’s novel "Value Village", an unlucky jade collector dreams of a windfall find. In the book’s... Read More

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Pocketful of Poseys

by Debbie McCarthy

Simultaneously heartwrenching and comical, Thomas Reed’s novel "Pocketful of Poseys" follows a family from the death of their matriarch to their journey to scatter her ashes. Cinny Posey, for all her upper-class panache, is an... Read More

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