Alex Lubertozzi’s science fiction novel "Any Other World Will Do" presents an alien vision of Earth’s possible future. It’s a send-up of the genre that wraps its earnest warning in plausible deniability. In 1986, Barcelona teems... Read More

"Autumn Leaves, 1922" is a sumptuous spy romp with an irresistible heroine. Glamorous gossip columnist Kiki is bereaved and beauty-starved when she returns to Paris from her mother’s deathbed in Australia. The jazz age is in full... Read More

Ghosts, dragons, and darker creatures populate the short stories of Zen Cho’s captivating collection "Spirits Abroad". In this book: spirits are everywhere. Some are friendly enough, while some go to horrific extremes to get what they... Read More

Camille Roy’s rich literary collection "Honey Mine" features outcasts and shows what it’s like to live as one. In the book’s sixteen short entries (both prose and poetry pieces), the character who speaks is always named Camille.... Read More

Rajiv Mohabir’s poetic memoir "Antiman" traces colonialism’s ongoing legacy within the hybrid identities of he and his family. A descendant of indenture, Mohabir’s family moved from India to Guyana to work as coolies in the sugar... Read More

A twelve-year-old in Darjeeling encounters a magical world when she sets out to rescue her twin in Payal Doshi’s original, girl-powered novel "Rea and the Blood of the Nectar". When Rea’s brother, Rohan, vanishes after a cricket... Read More

In Philline Harms’s young adult novel "Never Kiss Your Roommate", two new students at an atypical school find out that, when the paths of the desperate and the avoidant collide, the stakes are perilous. Perched above the town of... Read More

In his heartwrenching novel "The Book of Otto and Liam", Paul Griner traces the hard-fought healing of a school shooting victim’s father. The story is told through short snippets and vignettes. It starts on an anniversary of the event,... Read More