When two members of Vancouver’s Gujarati Indian community marry, they have no idea that their daughters, Gia and Serena, are destined to complete the cycle of sororial tension begun in their mother’s generation. These sisters come... Read More

Matt Tompkins’s "Odsburg" is a unique kind of story—almost too novel to be considered a novel at all. Within it, self-taught researcher Wallace Jenkins-Ross sets out to document the town of Odsburg. The data he accumulates is... Read More

Two men bond over sex, violence, and shared emotional and psychological trauma in Orlando Ortega-Medina’s neo noir "The Death of Baseball", about identity, sexuality, and nihilism in 1980s Los Angeles. The novel is a study of... Read More

In Joe Sacksteder’s "Driftless Quintet", a high school hockey star settles in a mysterious new town for his senior year. Hoping to further his career as a hockey goalie, Colton transfers north to a school in Driftless, Wisconsin.... Read More

Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II’s "The Equilibrist III" brings a series honoring two unusual, gifted people and their abiding love to a satisfying close. Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II’s The Equilibrist, Part III: The Quibbler continues the... Read More

Six giant pigs, four kids, and a gang of adults on a magical island maintain a tenuous balance of power until two castaways show up in Johanna Stoberock’s probing literary novel, "Pigs". Every day, Luisa, Andrew, Mimi, and Natasha feed... Read More

In Peter Robertson’s "Conclusion", healthy individuals can be scanned and “welded” to enjoy a guaranteed, healthy twenty more years of life. The catch is that they will die, or conclude, at the end of those two decades. Colin and... Read More

Melissa Hardy’s irreverent and funny novel "The Oracle of Cumae" is a layered tale wherein the present collides with the distant past. Coming to the end of her life, Mariuccia calls for a priest—but not because she wants to confess... Read More