Speaking to the importance of self-awareness and self-acceptance when it comes to weathering challenges, "Sincerely, Katherine." is an empathetic LGBTQ+ memoir. Katherine Dudtschak’s affirming memoir "Sincerely, Katherine." is about... Read More

Alternating between wry reflection and heightened vulnerability, "Guess What? I Love You" is a moving memoir about lasting love. Mike Maimone’s moving memoir "Guess What? I Love You" is about his pivotal relationship with an older... Read More

Substantial planning and extensive moralizing goes into a jailbreak in the musing novel "San Quentin Exodus". In Bill Smoot’s hopeful novel "San Quentin Exodus", an idealistic volunteer, viewing it as her moral obligation, attempts to... Read More

A Black girl comes of age, refining her conceptions of love and family, in Avery Irons’s incandescent historical novel "Belonging to the Air", set amid the Great Migration. In the early twentieth century, Bird is raised apart from the... Read More

A passionate couple from different sides of the Soviet divide avoids discussing their inevitable rifts in Yelena Moskovich’s sultry, wrenching novel-in-verse, "Nadezhda in the Dark". During a “black-milk,” mournful winter, as... Read More

Morgan Boecher’s emotive graphic novel "Chicken Heart" is an exploration of individual gender identity. Just before working a stand-up comedy set, Jackie reads a letter from the Chicken Heart Love Commune informing him of the death and... 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

Cassondra Windwalker’s contemplative novel begins with the sudden, challenging loss of a spouse. When Hayden loses his wife, Shelly, to a sudden stroke, he struggles to manage his landscaping business and take care of himself. The... Read More