Centering on an excruciatingly passionate love story, Louise Beech’s "The Lion Tamer Who Lost" is a rich literary text that includes family tragedies, unexpected discoveries, and second chances, all considered against the vibrant... Read More

Holly Ringland’s piquant debut, "The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart", is alternately airy and precise. It occupies a space somewhere between a fairy tale and a modern tragedy. Alice is born by the seaside. She drinks salt air and spends... Read More

Audrey J. Whitson’s haunting "The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning" is set in western Canada’s Majestic, Alberta—a town plagued by drought and a bleak economy, hardly able to live up to its imposing name. Elderly... Read More

In her novel "The Gifts We Keep", Katie Grindeland layers revelations over misunderstandings to spin a complex and ultimately unsustainable web of secrets between a family, their neighbor, and the ten-year-old girl who comes to stay with... Read More

Linda LeGarde Grover’s poignant "In the Night of Memory" explores loss and belonging among an Ojibwe family in northern Minnesota. It’s 1977, and two sisters—three-year-old Azure and four-year-old Rain—are taken from their... Read More

The Bocas are a developing nation’s sleepy backwater until oil is discovered. For Orbits, sudden wealth is as unreliable as happiness, though; both are a thin veneer over his fear that “Maybe we in these islands are just floaters and... Read More

Angela Lamb is a bestselling novelist who moonlights as a Virginia Woolf scholar. She’s prepping her keynote address for a Woolf conference when the unthinkable happens, and more than papers emerge from the Berg Collection’s stacks.... Read More

In Aatif Rashid’s witty and dissolute "Portrait of Sebastian Khan", a Muslim American college student is conflicted by his love for free-spirited pleasure and the more conventional realities of accomplishment, commitment, and... Read More