What was supposed to be a chill gig turns into a lurid exhibition from which an indie musician fears she may never recover in Lydi Conklin’s lush novel "Songs of No... Read More

Samina Ali’s searing memoir is about how a birth gone wrong took her, a promising young writer, to the brink of death. Ali’s intuition warned her of danger to her pregnancy.... Read More

In Michelle de Kretser’s novel Theory & Practice, a Sri Lankan graduate student completes her thesis while embroiled in a love affair. In 1986, a woman takes rooms in... Read More

In Yasmin Zaher’s novel "The Coin", an immigrant navigates a bizarre sociopolitical web of glamour, obsession, filth, and tragedy. After both her parents are killed in a... Read More

While working as migrants, a Mi’kmaq family is rent by their daughter’s disappearance in Amanda Peters’s decades-spanning, heartrending novel "The Berry Pickers". Even... Read More

A Russian woman recalls her mother’s final days and her own grieving process in Oksana Vasyakina’s novel "Wound". After her mother’s death, Oksana has an endless list of... Read More

In Tegan Nia Swanson’s mystery novel "Things We Found When the Water Went Down", three generations of women seek to protect a damaged world. In the midst of a blizzard,... Read More

In Brenda Lozano’s "Witches", an Indigenous healer tells her story to a reporter who has her own unhealed wounds. Paloma was killed for being Muxe, a third gender recognized... Read More

In her memoir "Two Trees Make a Forest", Jessica J. Lee braids together geology, language, and family history as she explores her Taiwanese roots. Lee, who has a doctorate... Read More

The faithful girls of a struggling California town are asked to sacrifice an ungodly amount in Chelsea Bieker’s "Godshot", a blazing novel about the messes made when blind... Read More

In "Night Theater", a disgraced surgeon faces a long night as three visitors arrive at his clinic door, greeting him with a macabre and otherworldly request. Before sunrise, the... Read More

An intimate yet sprawling chronicle of life in Iran before and during its revolutionary years in the late seventies, Rabeah Ghaffari’s "To Keep the Sun Alive" presents the... Read More