Memorable and fluid, professor Francesca T. Royster’s memoir "Choosing Family" blends her family’s history with her story of adopting an infant girl, juxtaposing personal life with political life and allowing each to illuminate the... Read More

Stênio Gardel’s slim novel "The Words That Remain" includes fragments of sentences, memories, and moments, recounted by an aging, illiterate gay man whose struggle for self-acceptance leads him from self-hatred to finding a chosen... Read More

In Emma Batchelor’s semiautobiographical novel "Now That I See You", a thirty-year-old woman processes her reactions after her partner tells her they are transgender. When her partner, Jess, reveals that they are femme, the narrator is... Read More

In Astrid Roemer’s novel On a Woman’s Madness, a Black woman struggles to find happiness in a world designed to push her down. Noenka, already a misfit because of her race and family history, becomes a true outcast when she leaves... Read More

A staged relationship blooms into love in Waverly Decker’s lighthearted LGBTQ+ romance novel "The 30-Day Engagement". Emory and Mari broke up eight years ago, so Emory is surprised when Mari, who works as an actress in Hollywood,... Read More

"The Queering" is a riveting novel in which an older lesbian makes a delayed choice to shout out the truth, no matter the consequences. A seventy-year-old closeted lesbian writer faces her past in Brooke Skipstone’s intense,... Read More

In the intricate science fiction novel "Unanimity", a virtual world collides with reality as flawed digital gods wrestle for control over the future. In Alexandra Almeida’s science fiction novel "Unanimity", two idealists craft nesting... Read More

Sacha Lamb’s "When the Angels Left the Old Country" is a luminescent novel about two incidental supernatural emigres. In a shtetl too small to warrant its own name, an angel and a demon argue Talmud together, wrapping themselves in the... Read More