Best of all is Starkman’s portrait of Margo—a flawed yet admirably strong victim of circumstance and biology who refuses to be a victim anymore. Monica Starkman’s novel "The End of Miracles" focuses on one woman’s longing to... Read More

The prose captivates the senses and makes one yearn for the dazzling seascape it describes so eloquently. Fragile father-daughter and father-son bonds, pernicious sibling rivalry, the complexities of race relations: combine that with a... Read More

In this compelling story, the characters change, and some grow, through choice and consequence. In "A Well-Made Bed", coauthors Abby Frucht and Laurie Alberts use strong and complex characters and an almost campy plot device to explore... Read More

A family flees from Castro’s Cuba, in this gritty, humorous novel about a young boy’s coming of age. Raul Ramos Y Sanchez’s "The Skinny Years" is a complex, humorous, and utterly absorbing coming-of-age tale set in the 1960s. With... Read More

Paisner deftly uses the technique of grounding otherworldly fiction in everyday reality. Daniel Paisner’s "A Single Happened Thing" is an engaging novel that weaves past and present with baseball and life, in a tone of surety and warm... Read More

"Testimony of the Senses" is passionately written with a vivid roster of characters. Cory Oldweiler’s "Testimony of the Senses" weaves an engrossing tale threaded with music and mythology. For young Emilio Tramonti, life begins without... Read More

Daitch’s novel is Indiana Jones for the introspective crowd—a continual, thrilling, and harrowing search for historical treasures. Beneath the sands of Iran lies a civilization lost millennia ago, rumored to have housed the lost... Read More

Every moment of this novel becomes appealing for its thoughtful approaches to the complicated nature of fraternal love. A pitied son rejects low expectations, leading to a deep family rift in Robert Rosenberg’s "Isles of the Blind", a... Read More