Love is a potent force in the surprising novel "Secrets at the Aviary Inn", in which unearthed secrets lead to new beginnings. A woman explores her family background in "Secrets at the Aviary Inn", MaryAnn Clarke’s engaging novel about... Read More

Focused but episodic, the novel The Things They Didn’t See is about the sharp realities surrounding grief. In Angela Shaeffer’s heartrending novel The Things They Didn’t See, a family navigates the serious fallout of a boy’s... Read More

In Valerie Fraser Luesse’s earthy Christian novel "The Light on Horn Island", women heal from grief as they rekindle their hopes in a bayou town. Edie is in mourning, while Charlotte, a family friend, never recovered from losing a... Read More

Amnesia and the complications of rebuilding a marriage inspire Anjet Daanje’s pensive historical novel "The Remembered Soldier", in which a Belgian veteran of the Great War grapples with fragile versions of the truth. After years... Read More

An immigrant contends with alienation and love in Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo’s spirited novel "The Tiny Things Are Heavier". Nigerian Sommy is a graduate student in Iowa, though she’s ambivalent about the virtues of the American... Read More

In Shokoofeh Azar’s intricate fabulistic novel "The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen", an Iranian girl comes of age in a time of war. When a gowkaran tree—likened to the Tree of Life, though no one seems certain about its... Read More

An art conservator, a scholar, and a portraitist embrace the mysteries of love and ancestry in Katherine Scott Crawford’s enchanting fantasy novel The Miniaturist’s Assistant. In 2004, Gamble works in a Charleston museum. Fascinated... Read More

An inventive, fabulistic novel, "North of Sunset" sets a dark scientific experiment against a background of glittering opulence. In Haley Ahern’s alluring futuristic novel "North of Sunset", a young man becomes involved with a tycoon... Read More