Mysterious mail initiates a family’s search for their buried truths in Anne Berest’s elegiac novel "The Postcard", which vivifies and honors the dead. At her first Seder well into her adulthood, Berest is confronted by an aspiring... Read More

In Tyriek White’s elegiac novel "We Are a Haunting", a son’s inherited grief binds him to his mother and grandmother as he discovers how to define “home” in New York. On the brink of expulsion from school in the 2000s, Colly is... Read More

Hazel Jane Plante’s novel "Any Other City" puts a transgender punk idol’s story to the page. Tracy St. Cyr lives in a city that could be “any other city” that features creative and queer communities. Her story is structured like... Read More

"The Missing" is an insightful short story collection in which people contend with feelings of isolation. In Tory Tuttle’s introspective short story collection "The Missing", people who live on the unstable margins experience cruelties... Read More

In Sarah Gerard’s spare and elegant novella "The Butter House", a woman seeks solace and contemplates her future while she settles into a new home with her boyfriend and two cats. The woman and her boyfriend leave Brooklyn for an... Read More

In Nebraska poet Terese Svoboda’s haunting novel "Dog on Fire", a small town reels in the wake of a tragedy. In a dusty town in contemporary times, an unnamed man dies under mysterious circumstances. In the months that follow his loss,... Read More

In Miah Jeffra’s novel American Gospel, the gentrification of Baltimore, Maryland, is witnessed through alternating points of view—those of the people affecting it, and those of the people who are affected by it. When plans for... Read More

In Nathacha Appanah’s luminous novel "The Sky above the Roof", a teenager’s impulsive, confused actions lead to his imprisonment. Formidable, intense Phoenix was forced to be a child entertainer. Doll-like, she sang for adoring... Read More