Witty, melancholic, and dramatic by turns, Rheea Mukherjee’s "The Body Myth" is a touching love story about misfits searching for togetherness, even if that togetherness might not be healthy for all concerned. Set in Suryam City in... Read More

The destructive earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that struck Japan in March of 2011 may be growing more distant in the public consciousness, but in Kimura Yūsuke’s Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa’s Deluge, forceful twin... Read More

João Gilberto Noll’s "Lord" opens with a cryptic quote from Iain Sinclair: “The secret interiors of these post-human fortresses solicit conspiracy, acts of sexual transgression. Illicit exchanges between dealers.” Aging and... Read More

An intimate yet sprawling chronicle of life in Iran before and during its revolutionary years in the late seventies, Rabeah Ghaffari’s "To Keep the Sun Alive" presents the nation’s monumental changes from the perspective of a small... Read More

“Remembering is the lie of a thread pulled through time backwards,” yet Meghan L. Dowling’s protagonist, Catherine, is determined to reveal the multigenerational legacy of enmity between sisters in her New England family. Over the... Read More

Yewande Omotoso’s novel "Bom Boy" is a multigenerational tale set in Cape Town that explores how social and familial pressures shape an individual’s life. It beautifully captures struggles with loneliness, loss, poverty, and... Read More

Within The Seven Malas are an imaginative handful of affairs and one glowing true-love story. John Leslie Lange’s novel The Seven Malas is part midlife makeover, part male fantasy, and part earnest quest. Thirtysomething James Wilder... Read More

For all its courtly manners and Renaissance intrigue, "Love That Moves the Sun" distills into a delicate portrayal of one woman’s search for depth. Linda Cardillo’s "Love That Moves the Sun" centers on Vittoria Colonna and... Read More