"The Escalator" is a sympathetic novel in which a peculiar family is impacted by the predicaments of an era. In Andrew Budden’s novel Escalator, a family’s period of mourning is complicated by Brexit and a pandemic. William was a... Read More

"And Go to Innisfree" is a collection of short stories about men who loved and lost. Don Eron’s short story collection "And Go to Innisfree" catches its characters at pivotal moments in their lives. In this collection: a greeting card... Read More

In the historical novel "Heimat", German immigrants face new challenges in the United States in the 1930s, shifting their understandings of “home.” In Paul Marzell’s historical novel "Heimat", nostalgic longing for their lost... Read More

With wit, verve, and compassion, Ernest Cohen’s epic novel "Just One Life" demonstrates how one man’s tragedy can become the impetus for healing and growth in the lives of those around him. In Ernest Cohen’s epic novel "Just One... Read More

Ken Kalfus’s novel "2 A.M. in Little America" takes a disturbing plunge into a troubled future. Before the US descended into violent chaos, Ron—fresh out of high school, indistinctive, and without a taste for factions or... Read More

J. A. Mensah’s "Castles from Cobwebs" is a haunting coming-of-age tale. Imani is a Ghanaian orphan who was left on a castle incline in Northumbria. Picked up by the reverend mother of a convent, Imani is raised there, experiencing... Read More

In R. Cathey Daniels’s harrowing novel "Live Caught", a young man confronts his troubled past. In the 1970s, Lenny set out for the Atlantic from his North Carolina farm. He washed up on an unrecognized shore, his boat lost. He was... Read More

In Jennifer Dupree’s gripping novel, two women in rural Maine examine the meanings of motherhood and family. Rose is thirty-nine and married, with a two-year-old son and a second child on the way. She and her husband Hank are building... Read More