"Now You Are a Missing Person" is an intricate, poetic memoir that touches upon personal and universal concerns of womanhood. Spanning girlhood and widowhood, Susan Hayden’s poetic memoir "Now You Are a Missing Person" contemplates... Read More

With the support of others, an abused woman comes into her own in the revealing bildungsroman "Where Love Lies". A loving family, financial privilege, fashionable clothes, and academic success offer no protection against insecurity and a... Read More

In Suzanne Kamata’s novel "Cinnamon Beach", a man’s death brings together the grieving women in his family for a summer of self-reflection and discovery. To spread the final portion of Ted’s ashes, his family gathers along the... Read More

Rejecting a family tradition of silence to catalog inherited and individual wounds, "Little Boy, I Know Your Name" is a powerful memoir. Mitchell Raff’s forthright memoir "Little Boy, I Know Your Name" centers on his relationships with... Read More

In prose drenched with awe, Charlie J. Stephens’s tender novel "A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest" takes a child’s perspective on the pains of being poor in rural Oregon. For eight-year-old Smokey, poverty is part of the landscape, just... Read More

The pieces of what’s left of a people colonized need caretaking, lionizing, and encouragement to come out into the sun. The job is left to poets who are also warriors. Descending from Alaska’s Lingít, Haida, and Yup’ik Native... Read More

A potent story of a diaspora coming-of-age, Denis Hirson’s memoir troubles the distance between inheritance and the lives we make for ourselves. In Hirson’s Johannesburg childhood, certain topics were forbidden, including politics... Read More

In Balsam Karam’s timely novel "The Singularity", the lives of two refugee women intersect with anonymous resonance. In an unnamed coastal city, a mother searches for her seventeen-year-old daughter, handing out flyers and begging for... Read More