PsychiatristAsianAmericanGayGuy wields a wickedsharp wordweapon to explore the dailyplate of complexity handed to him. This debut collection earned Eric Tran the Autumn House Rising Writers Prize in 2019. My Mother Asks How I Was Gay... Read More

Chronicling one generation of a hardscrabble island family’s life, Roy Jacobsen’s novel "The Unseen" is a pearlescent tribute to the alchemy of the sea. Ingrid, a bright-eyed child whose laughter is her family’s solace, is born on... Read More

Hungry from climbing the Himalayas and other grand backyard adventures, two best friends pause their imaginative play to create a sandwich fit for a bold explorer. Pierre speaks French and Paul speaks English, but communication is no... Read More

A boy and his robot move to Earth’s moon in John Huddles’s wonderful "Boon on the Moon". Byron “Boon” Barnett’s dream comes true when his father gets a job opportunity on the Moon; with some lobbying from Boon, the whole family... Read More

Taras Grescoe’s artful and detailed "Possess the Air" draws on letters, memoirs, and secondary sources to chronicle twenty years of resistance to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Set in Mussolini’s Rome, which lives and breathes... Read More

Travel and awakening combine in "Lost in Oaxaca", Jessica Winters Mireles’s delicate romance. Camille is a piano teacher at a personal and professional crossroads. After an abusive lover left her injured, Camille turned cautious. Her... Read More

Kristen Millares Young’s novel "Subduction" is rife with personal struggles, confrontations, and the pain of memory. Claudia, a Latinx anthropology professor, escapes a barren marriage and the life that she built in Seattle after... Read More

Bonds between humans and animals are especially powerful when creative and eccentric people are involved, as Alex Johnson’s quirky, alphabetical collection "Edward Lear and the Pussycat" demonstrates. This slim, playful trip through... Read More