In Therese Bohman’s coming-of-age novel "Mount Verity", a childhood tragedy alters the trajectory of an artist’s life. On Easter Eve in 1989, Hannah’s older brother Erik disappears during a midnight trip to a mountain with a mythic... Read More

Monika Fagerholm’s hard-hitting experimental novel is about the aftereffects of gang rape. During a spring break party, Nathan and three other teenage boys restrained their classmate, Sascha, in the basement and raped her. A decade... Read More

In Dorothy Tse’s striking, surreal novella "City Like Water", a person navigates a contorted reality in a nameless city. An unnamed narrator experiences displacement, both in memory and space. They recall the top bunk they once slept... Read More

The discovery of an alien communication changes a family’s trajectory in Alexandra Oliva’s rich speculative novel "The Radiant Dark". When scientists announce that a repeating light pattern is a message from extraterrestrials, Carol... Read More

A rootless orphan is adopted into a starving village’s heart in Sandrine Collette’s striking novel "Madelaine Before the Dawn". La Foye sits at the edge of the world, cut off from civilization by a winding river. The peasants who... Read More

A woman maps cultural expectations and desires onto her ailing body in Egana Djabbarova’s singular novel My Dreadful Body. Tackling one body part per chapter, this bildungsroman follows Egana, an Azerbaijani daughter, as she learns... Read More

In Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s mesmerizing historical novel "Nightshade", a young woman is grounded and conflicted by her Romani background. In 1980s southern Ontario, Zelda and her family prepare for a season of grueling migrant labor at a... Read More

A Zambian woman is prosecuted for murder in Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s gripping novel "The Shipikisha Club". After shooting her husband in self-defense, Sali faces the public fervor of a trial. Her teenage daughter and two young sons... Read More