Polly Barton’s insightful stream-of-consciousness novel "What Am I, a Deer?" is about a translator’s search for meaningful connection. An unnamed Japanese translator works at a computer game corporation in Frankfurt. Eccentric in her... Read More

In Stacie Ramey’s cozy mystery novel "Spellbound by Murder", a single mother and her teenage daughter return to their family bookstore, facing murder and magical secrets. Veronica and Phoebe leave Florida for Mystic Hollow to help Gran... Read More

Bar Fridman-Tell’s aching and alarming novel "Honeysuckle" is part star-crossed love story, part allegory about human attempts to effect dominion over nature. Eight-year-old Rory is distraught when his older sister, Wynne, outgrows... Read More

In Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s mesmerizing historical novel "Nightshade", a young woman is grounded and conflicted by her Romani background. In 1980s southern Ontario, Zelda and her family prepare for a season of grueling migrant labor at a... Read More

An entrepreneur navigates Taiwan’s government, gangs, and corporate culture in Ed Lin’s mystery novel The Dead Can’t Make a Living. Entrepreneurial, sarcastic, and unlucky Jing-nan runs his late parents’ food stall in Taipei’s... Read More

The convoluted web of food system sustainability, land management, and ecological misfires populates the pages of Nicole Negowetti’s "Feeding the Future". The apparatus of food production is herein magnified through dense,... Read More

A man is tasked with finding a missing painting in Naomi Hirahara’s historical novel "Crown City". While adrift in grief, Ryui is offered a job in California by his father’s former client. After a harrowing voyage from Japan, he... 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