The traumas and triumphs of a former Mormon’s coming-out story are given theatrical accouterments in AJ Romriell’s memoir "Wolf Act". Ensconced in the ruse of a screenplay, the memoir recounts Romriell’s arduous Mormon upbringing.... Read More

A woman seeks direction in her life in the gorgeous graphic novel "The Girl Who Flew Away". In 1976, Greer is pregnant with the child of her married boss, Dick. With few other options, she complies as Dick shuttles her from Pittsburgh to... Read More

Steve Stern’s "A Fool’s Kabbalah" is a crushing, startling novel about intellectual and spiritual defiance in the face of unbearable cruelties. On a scholarly scavenging expedition through Europe, famed kabbalist Gershom Scholem... Read More

In Michelle de Kretser’s novel Theory & Practice, a Sri Lankan graduate student completes her thesis while embroiled in a love affair. In 1986, a woman takes rooms in Melbourne to research her thesis on Virginia Woolf. She wrestles... Read More

Shifting between Nigeria and the US, Olufunke Grace Bankole’s novel "The Edge of Water" is about the separation and reunion of mothers and daughters. Esther details her experience of motherhood through letters to her daughter Amina,... Read More

In Eva Menasse’s historical novel "Darkenbloom", the wartime secrets of a small Austrian town are compromised by the urgent demands of the present. The book begins in 1989 in the Austrian village of Darkenbloom. Though it’s no longer... Read More

A decision made in haste reverberates across multiple kingdoms in Patricia A. McKillip’s lush fantasy classic "The Book of Atrix Wolfe". Blackmailed to betray the ethics of his practice, an enraged mage calls up violent forces to end a... Read More

In Suzanne Manizza Roszak’s radiant novel "The Poison Girl", a brilliant, determined girl escapes the maledictions of her jealous father. Just after Bice was born, her beleaguered mother died. Her father—perhaps blaming himself;... Read More