In the heartfelt novel "Abilene", three women unravel the mysteries overshadowing their families and their lives. In Dare DeLano’s intimate novel "Abilene", three women discover the truth about the men they trusted. The book is set in... Read More

A girl is consumed with grief and guilt when her mother goes missing in Siȃn Hughes’s luminous novel "Pearl". Marianne recalls the exact moment when the police stopped looking for her missing mother and began searching for her body.... Read More

In Sean Michaels’s prescient and fascinating novel "Do You Remember Being Born?", a famous poet is asked to co-write a poem with an AI. At seventy-five years old, Marian—who wears capes, a tricorn hat, and bikinis—is... Read More

The unnamed narrator of Sheena Patel’s edgy novel I’m a Fan is a woman of color and a stalker. Although she lives with her doting boyfriend, the writer is having an affair with a rich, prominent, emotionally unavailable man who is... Read More

A country’s first Black chief inspector investigates the disappearance of a powerful white man in Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s spellbinding mystery novel "The Quality of Mercy". Spokes, once a porter for the British Army, felt convicted... Read More

In Alma García’s novel "All That Rises", two families living on the borderland between the US and Mexico share a tangled history. Rose Marie leaves her husband and three children without explanation. On the same day but a few houses... Read More

In Lars Iyer’s comedic novel "My Weil", a ragtag cohort of doctoral candidates studies at a Manchester university’s second-rate philosophy program—rebranded Disaster Studies. The members of this grimy and vibrant group spend a lot... Read More

In Eskor David Johnson’s thrilling literary novel Pay as You Go, a barber careens through an imaginary metropolis in search of a place to call home. Two months after moving to sprawling Polis, Slide shares an apartment with an... Read More