An elder shares her story in Chi Zijian’s reflective novel "The Last Quarter of the Moon". An unnamed Evenki woman laments the loss represented by her home’s emptiness. Her family voted to leave their mountains; modernization... Read More

Devon Jersild’s riveting novel "Luminous Bodies" centers the tumultuous yet fulfilling personal life of legendary scientist Marie Curie. Curie, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize and the first person to win one twice, exhibited... Read More

In Susan McCarty’s absorbing, nostalgic novel "2008", the lives of a group of estranged high school friends intertwine again fifteen years later. The story begins in 1993, on the night teenage Stevie, her boyfriend Sam, and her best... Read More

A queer fantasy novel that brings literal magic to the theater, Molly Ringle’s "The Quicksand Theatre Company" is an original take on fae legends. The third standalone in an interconnected series, the novel returns to Eidolonia, an... Read More

Picking up after a novel set two thousand years prior, T. C. Kraven’s Of Death & Desires doesn’t miss a beat in continuing the star-crossed story of Hades and Persephone. After a multimillennial search, Persephone is found in... Read More

Kim Danielson’s gracious memoir "Piece by Piece" revisits the stories behind the jewelry lost in a home robbery. Danielson describes coming to terms with the violation of the theft in this work of appreciative reflection. Indeed, the... Read More

A man’s reverence for art leads to wartime defiance in the enchanting historical novel "The Prodigal of Leningrad". When the Nazis invade Leningrad, Daniil, a widower and volunteer docent, witnesses the State Hermitage Museum remove... Read More

A first-time grandmother reckons with the ways she retreated from herself in Hollay Ghadery’s melancholy but hopeful novel The Unraveling of Ou. Minoo’s strict, conservative mother ingrained in her the belief that she was shameful,... Read More