Unsparing and compassionate, Erum Shazia Hasan’s novel "We Meant Well" follows foreign aid workers and the communities they attempt to serve. For over a decade, Maya worked for a global charitable organization, managing an orphanage in... Read More

A secret between a husband and a wife threatens their existence in Marijke Schermer’s novel "Breakwater". Bruch is in love with Emilia. Everything about her is right. But without explanation, Emilia stops taking his calls. Her brother... Read More

Amused, sometimes annoyed, and always evolving, the land beneath an English village observes the habits of the generations who settle it in Tom Cox’s irresistible novel "Villager". The land beneath Underhill has seen it all: pagan... Read More

In Sharon Sochil Washington’s "The Blue Is Where God Lives", a Black woman makes discoveries about her family and herself. Eighteen months after her daughter’s murder, Blue is still lost in a haze of grief and guilt, borne of both... Read More

Both luscious and melancholy, Madelaine Lucas’s novel sifts through the ashes of a woman’s formative romantic relationship, unearthing the truths that she once evaded. Though her childhood circumstances were somewhat circumscribed,... Read More

A man struggles with past trauma and an uncertain future in Jinwoo Chong’s novel "Flux". A few days before Christmas, Brandon is laid off, falls down an elevator shaft, and blows it with both his boyfriend and a new girl he likes. In... Read More

"Bark On" is Mason Boyles’s free-ranging, fanciful novel about the complex dynamics and extreme training regimen of two triathletes. Benji, a scandalized former Olympic trainer, recruits and coaches endurance athletes for Ironman... Read More

Set in Newfoundland, Violet Browne’s evocative, lyrical novel "This Is the House That Luke Built" is about a woman from a small fishing village who loses her husband at sea. The novel traces fifty years in Rose’s life via brief,... Read More