In Jennifer Givhan’s riveting novel "River Woman, River Demon", a bruja fights to discover the truth about the woman whom her husband found murdered behind their home. Eva is... Read More

A woman faces a personal reckoning in "Half Outlaw", a touching novel about what it’s like to reject—or embrace—complicated people. An orphaned woman reckons with her... Read More

"The Nobodies" is a compulsive psychological thriller that concerns the dark, obsessive side of women’s friendships. A childhood friend’s return reawakens buried feelings in... Read More

A Maryland family navigates the return of their institutionalized daughter in "The Precious Jules", Shawn Nocher’s contemplative novel about duty, love, and sibling fears.... Read More

Afro-Latina Adiba Nelson’s memoir-in-essays Ain’t That a Mother concerns dating, motherhood, parenting a disabled child, and breaking generational habits—as much about... Read More

Set in a dystopian future, the novel "The Hush" is filled by instances of surveillance and suspended human rights. Eerie and prescient, it covers the lengths that a family will... Read More

A distinctive urban fantasy novel, Cadwell Turnbull’s "No Gods, No Monsters" is an operatic story involving monsters, magic, and myth. The stage is set when Laina receives a... Read More

A monk with anger management problems leads William Kotzwinkle’s novel "Felonious Monk", which is a wild ride of double-crossing crimes. Tommy Martini was born into a crime... Read More

The story of a community of women in crisis and the power they found through their will to save themselves, "The Rebel Nun" tells the fictional truth behind the historical... Read More

With a dash of magical realism, Faith Merino’s novel "Cormorant Lake" concerns the meanings and complexities of motherhood and family. When Evelyn comes home to find one of... Read More

Politics, family frictions, and divided loyalties collide in Ehsaneh Sadr’s engrossing novel, which is set during the aftermath of Iran’s controversial 2009 presidential... Read More

With its pivotal focus on Coco Chanel’s reported World War II work as a Nazi spy, Pamela Binnings Ewen’s novel "The Queen of Paris" fictionalizes the thoughts and... Read More