Within its compact length of six stories, Amy Lee Lillard’s collection "Exile in Guyville" packs a major punch with its hard-hitting science fiction that centers women’s perspectives. Sometimes darkly humorous and sometimes just... Read More
Jim Roberts’s gritty short story collection Of Fathers & Gods reconciles ideas of fatherhood with faith. Told from a miscellany of viewpoints, these stories are forceful when it comes to the most challenging parts of being human.... Read More
Greg Sarris’s short story collection "The Forgetters" is a triumphant testament to the power of storytelling. Answer Woman and Question Woman sit perched on a fence rail atop Sonoma Mountain. Answer Woman remembers all the stories but... Read More
Sejal Shah’s intrepid short story collection "How to Make Your Mother Cry" is a polysemous encounter connecting auditory and visual modes. Interspersed with ephemera—memory-photographs, childlike drawings, Indian dance notations, a... Read More
In the funny and harrowing short stories of Joan Leegant’s excellent collection Displaced Persons, characters navigate myriad forms of displacement, from putting a new life together after divorce to finding their place in an adopted... Read More
In the short stories that make up Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio’s novel "Reuniting with Strangers", women from the Philippines try to make places for themselves halfway across the world. For many Filipinas in the collection, the only way... Read More
Dogs are the catalysts for human tenderness and daring in the warm short story collection "Madcap Dogs". In Ron Chandler’s endearing short story collection "Madcap Dogs", canines bring the best out of their human companions. In these... Read More