Scrappy women are taunted by the abuses and violence of their pasts in Grace Spulak’s blistering short story collection "Magdalena Is Brighter than You Think". In the title story, a teenage girl is haunted by her brother’s ghost; she... Read More
A luminous novel told in snippets, Susannah M. Smith’s "The Alchemy of Paradise" considers how best to live in the face of loss. An unnamed museum curator looks back on her idyllic childhood, wherein her father was an architect. While... Read More
