Native American customs and intractable cultural divides clash in this detective story that has depth. In this installment of his Kiowa Country series, Tom Holm brings back Irish ex-cop J. D. Daughtery and Cherokee war veteran Hoolie... Read More

A medical crisis challenges a transatlantic friendship in this understated dual account of betrayal and disability. Michèle Halberstadt is a film producer as well as a journalist and author. In her latest novel, "Mon amie américaine",... Read More

This dark novel enters the realm of the forbidden and feared with humor and empathy. Anakana Schofield takes readers into the strange world of Martin John, flasher, public masturbator, and mentally ill security guard. Like Francine... Read More

This moving and provocative encounter with various modes of religious being delves into themes of change and continuity. In a novel that traverses the time period between Chanukah and Simchat Torah and bridges the distance between New... Read More

This unflinching novel focuses on a sometime psychic who is forced to make difficult choices in her declining New Mexico hometown. In "The Staked Plains", Stefan Kiesbye portrays life in a declining New Mexican town through the eyes of a... Read More

This congenial and crisply drawn portrait of bayou life is a satisfying story that pays homage to a bewitching landscape. Gwen Roland returns to Louisiana with a slice-of-life novel set in bustling Bayou Chene circa 1907. When a... Read More

A story about a Holocaust survivor seeking vengeance showcases Leviant at his absurdist best. Beneath the linguistic panache and magical realism of Curt Leviant’s endlessly consumable "King of Yiddish" lie complex questions of family... Read More

Irreverent sketches in a satirized metropolis portray emotional disenchantment. Stephen C. Bird’s collection of related short stories, Any Resemblance to a Coincidence Is Accidental, presents a hyper-electric commentary on modern life,... Read More