Joey always felt different. By nine years old, she was ready to tell her family the truth: “I am not a boy.” Though nervous about being rejected or misunderstood, she summoned her courage to reveal herself on Shabbat. Instead, she... Read More

Southern Gothic meets feminist, supernatural horror in Allison Cundiff’s thrilling novel "The Mysterious Women of J Road", in which a gifted woman raised on the righteous side of an Ozarks divide is forced toward self-reckoning. The... Read More

"Seen at Last" is a moving novel about a tempestuous middlescence, the process of coming out, and falling in love again. A mother who is bereft of genuine care explores her same-sex attractions in J. T. Tierney’s perceptive novel about... Read More

J. A. Stevens’s delightful queer Regency romance novel A Chance of Pace features a diverse cast and multiple mysteries. Georgina is a rake beyond redemption, or so she believes. She is recruited to help a friend in need and encounters... Read More

A teenager explores her sexual identity despite the disapproval of her family in the sensitive graphic novel "Punk Like Me". Nina, a preparatory school student in Staten Island, and her best friend Kerry enjoy music and comic books.... Read More

Speaking to the importance of self-awareness and self-acceptance when it comes to weathering challenges, "Sincerely, Katherine." is an empathetic LGBTQ+ memoir. Katherine Dudtschak’s affirming memoir "Sincerely, Katherine." is about... Read More

Substantial planning and extensive moralizing goes into a jailbreak in the musing novel "San Quentin Exodus". In Bill Smoot’s hopeful novel "San Quentin Exodus", an idealistic volunteer, viewing it as her moral obligation, attempts to... Read More

A Black girl comes of age, refining her conceptions of love and family, in Avery Irons’s incandescent historical novel "Belonging to the Air", set amid the Great Migration. In the early twentieth century, Bird is raised apart from the... Read More