In "Loving the Dead and Gone", Judith Turner-Yamamoto’s multivoiced novel, the death of a young man provokes women in a rural North Carolina town to revisit their unmet longings. Clayton is puzzled by his wife Berta Mae’s contentions... Read More

Love it or hate it, jacket copy is the first window into any book, singing its praises while also intimating at what’s really between the covers. Louise Wilder’s witty guide "Blurb Your Enthusiasm" is a treat for insiders and... Read More

A solitary young woman gazes into a senior’s tumultuous past in "Almost Visible", Michelle Sinclair’s immersive novel about finding connections and living through regrets. Fresh from Nova Scotia, Tess moves to Montreal and in with a... Read More

Jennifer L. Wright’s intelligent and arresting historical novel focuses on two girls who witness the atomic bomb test in New Mexico. In 1944, the US Army claims Olive’s family ranch through eminent domain. Against her will, she’s... Read More

"The Key to Circus-Mom Highway" is a zany novel in which two adoptees rediscover their family roots. In Allyson Rice’s feverish, entertaining novel "The Key to Circus-Mom Highway", siblings go on a road trip in search of their... Read More

A Civil War soldier endures tough losses and faces a long moral reckoning as a ghost in the historical novel "Long Shadows". A Confederate ghost confronts his Civil War memories when a couple moves into his childhood home in Abigail... Read More

OId Love Skin is an eye-opening poetry collection that is shaped by Africa’s inescapable past and that celebrates its rich multiplicities. "Old Love Skin", an egalitarian anthology edited by Nyashadzashe Chikumbu, introduces over fifty... Read More

A woman faces a personal reckoning in "Half Outlaw", a touching novel about what it’s like to reject—or embrace—complicated people. An orphaned woman reckons with her troubled upbringing in Alex Temblador’s visceral novel "Half... Read More