In Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s emotive novel "Glassworks", four generations struggle under the weight of unexpressed feelings, unsaid words, and unmet needs. It starts with a bee. In 1910, heiress Agnes takes a renowned glass artist,... Read More

Set in Edwardian England, Stephanie Cowell’s novel "The Boy in the Rain" concerns the passionate romance between a painter and a divorced writer. After a traumatic exchange with his uncle, nineteen-year-old Robbie, who is failing in... Read More

A lawyer grapples with temptation in Orlando Ortega-Medina’s novel "The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants". Marc should be on top of the world. He is a successful lawyer, he has a loving relationship with Isaac, and he has been sober for... Read More

In Artem Mozgovoy’s heartbreaking historical novel "Spring in Siberia", a gay man comes of age in a post-Soviet land. In the same year that Mikhail Gorbachev launches the Perestroika and sets the Soviet Union on the path toward its own... Read More

In Stine Pilgaard’s novel "My Mother Says", an eccentric woman who faces roadblocks in her academic career and relationships uses humor to sidestep her pain. After breaking up with her zookeeper girlfriend over their age gap and their... Read More

In K Patrick’s novel "Mrs. S", a woman navigates a new job far from home, as well as her growing feelings for an older woman. At an old-fashioned girls’ boarding school in England, the new matron is anything but traditional. She’s... Read More

A woman’s attempt to avenge her sister leads to a fantastical adventure in Jeremy C. Shipp’s novel "The Merry Dredgers". Seraphina is a birthday party princess, a pet feeder, and the only person left who cares about her spirited,... Read More

In Pirkko Saisio’s autobiographical novel "The Red Book of Farewells", a Finnish woman navigates being a lesbian in a time when homosexuality was outlawed and when the currents of communism pervaded every aspect of life. Death opens... Read More