Told via overlapping, time-jumping narratives, Laura Kasischke’s fragmentary novel, "The Lifeguard", centers small-town residents whose lives intertwine following a boy’s drowning. As the residents of Mission Hills, Michigan, grow... Read More

Near the end of Earth’s life span, two women make meaning in each other’s uncommon company in Deb Olin Unferth’s dazzling dystopian novel "Earth 7". From an isolated pod on the seabed, a lonely, anxious girl, Dylan, sends messages... Read More

A struggling teacher is immersed in profound philosophical mysteries in the introspective novel "Café Philosophy". In M. A. Alsadah’s musing novel "Café Philosophy", a precocious teacher converses with unassuming strangers at a local... Read More

Part maternal and filial lament, part horror story, Kirsten Kaschock’s eerie, enrapturing novel follows a biological experiment gone wrong. In a Pennsylvania barn, grief-driven Agnes tinkers with crow DNA, hoping to nurture a specimen... Read More