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

Four people will determine the fate of multiple worlds in A. G. Riddle’s "Quantum Radio". All Ty ever wanted was to use science to unlock the universe’s secrets. But after a historic breakthrough, other forces seek to control what Ty... Read More

Vasily Eroshenko uses simple tales to explore powerful, complex morals in "The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales". Storytellers have long used fairy tales and children’s stories as a means of delivering radical, even subversive... 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

In Mia Tsai’s novel "Bitter Medicine", two haunted immortals find love despite overwhelming obstacles. Elle was once an aspiring artist and powerful glyphmaker. She has two brothers—one is arrogant, but fun and loyal; the other is... Read More

"The House on Tyner" is an engaging supernatural mystery novel about family secrets, the price of vengeance, and learning to move on after loss. In Matthew O’Connell’s mystery novel "The House on Tyner", a widower investigates a... Read More

In Dorothy Tse’s novel "Owlish", a bizarre love affair upends a respectable man’s dull but orderly life in a city that is anything but ordinary. Perhaps it was inevitable that Professor Q, a middle-aged man caught in a dead-end job... Read More

An enticing visitor spells doom—or a new beginning—for a distinguished but troubled family line in Marie Hélène Poitras’s novel "Sing, Nightingale". The Berthoumieux men have been caught in an endless cycle of control, lust,... Read More