“I’m in the wrong life. Do you know what I mean?” Carla confesses to her stepbrother in a rare moment of honesty. Rick understands perfectly, because this is his own situation. Ignored by his father. Ridiculed by his step-father.... Read More

"Dream of Reason" is the fictional diary of Santiago Hernández—written late into the night and secreted away—chronicling his childhood, first love, marriage, personal crises, and (from a distance) the Spanish Civil War and World War... Read More

Farid Mushtak and Rana Shahin share the best and the worst kind of love: the star-crossed variety riddled with secret meetings, love letters written in code, constant uncertainty, blissful afternoons spent hidden together in the dark of... Read More

“Random things happen, and these are the things that change everything else.” *Shark Girls’*s second sentence succinctly states one of its themes—the long-term consequences of accidents that occur in one horrible moment. The book... Read More

“The secret of enduring is not to harden oneself against loss but to soften oneself in acceptance.” Enduring, the latest novel by Donald Harington, depicts 121 years of American history through the life of a very old woman. Panoramic... Read More

Love and marriage faith betrayal kindness selfishness and tolerance are just some of the thematic riches that surface in this multigenerational saga set in Jamaica. Linked together by the body of water which keeps their farms fertile the... Read More

This author 1870—1953), who won the Nobel Prize in 1933 for his fictionalized autobiography Life of Arseniev, and whose The Elaghin Affair and Other Stories was translated by Bernard Guerney, remains too little known and appreciated in... Read More

“Look. It’s empty out there, & cold. / Cold enough to reconcile / Even a father, even a son.” This epigraph from the poet Larry Levis launches this novel, set in northern Michigan. With prose at once lyrical and plainspoken,... Read More