When the author’s Indian mother and Jewish father announced their divorce, she was eleven years old and was asked to choose whether she wanted to live with her father or mother. Saltzman chose to live with her father. This book takes... Read More

“I remember the nest that hatched me,” begins this gentle, powerful debut novel, setting up the quiet power that will tremble throughout the work. “My mother lined it carefully with the fleece of human and sheep, mane of horse,... Read More

The Langston Blue of the title is a battle-scarred Vietnam War deserter who’s been hiding out for more than thirty years in the backwoods of West Virginia. His life is reasonably serene until the day someone tries to assassinate him by... Read More

The author (who also wrote The Spy Who Never Was and Passport and Parasol) tells the truly amazing story of Alexander Cruden (1699—1770), whose life teetered between fame and fortune and persecution and incarceration. Cruden, born to... Read More

“This Naphtalene causes the closet in which it is kept and from where it keeps watch to erupt in flaming sentences,” writes Hélène Cixous in her foreword to this book. Recalling her childhood in 1950s Baghdad, Huda smolders with... Read More

Grouping a novella with short stories offers readers the chance to observe a writer’s range of tone, subject matter, and general skill. In this debut by a winner of the John Gardner Award for Short Fiction, the reader is rewarded with... Read More

With the name Sarah Thorson, a girl must be a fair-skinned, blue-eyed blonde Lutheran who loves lutefisk herring. Or so the young protagonist of this delicate novel once thought. Yet, mirror glimpses remind her that she has “black,... Read More

An unlikely hero sold into indentured servitude, a country in social turmoil, a dash of sexual intrigue, and a pinch of murder-the perfect remedy for reader lethargy-are all found in this epic tale flavored with the exoticism of Persia.... Read More