While being held for ransom, two Nigerian women discover a life-changing connection in Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s novel "The Son of the House". Nwabulu and Julie have an... Read More

Heidi von Palleske’s peculiar "Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack" is a novel in which nothing is incidental and aberrations abound. The audience is required, from the... Read More

Eddy Boudel Tan’s debut novel "After Elias", whose climatic prologue is arresting, rides on a trajectory wherein every mystery solved begets a dozen more. Coen Caraway... Read More

A sabbatical trip leads to unearthed family secrets in Farzana Doctor’s luminous novel, "Seven". Sharifa and Murtuza’s marriage has settled back into comfortable routines... Read More

Throbbing with life, Bill Cosgrave’s memoir "Love Her Madly" recalls a brief time in America’s history when all things seemed possible—including an enduring friendship... Read More

Created in a magical labyrinth of roiling emotion, the assassin Eli hopes to earn her personhood by hunting an elusive ghost. "The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass" is a surreal... Read More

Fantasy is an outlet for grief, fear, and transformation in the pop culture-inflected novel "Evie of the Deepthorn" from André Babyn. A single story becomes the emotional... Read More

Oakland Ross’s "Swimming with Horses" is a multilayered adventure that is part mystery, part coming-of-age tale. The story vacillates between apartheid South Africa in 1962... Read More

The trouble with country living: there’s nobody to hear you scream. Lacey McCrae, a former corporal in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, defends a friend from a nighttime... Read More

Kim Moritsugu’s entertaining crime drama "The Showrunner" unapologetically explores Hollywood’s superficial show-business lifestyle, showing just how deadly ambition can be.... Read More

This is a romance, but it’s a romance about solitude and healing and making a home. It’s perfect timing when Arizona-born Molly Bannister learns that she’s inheriting... Read More

The language of "The Fiddler is a Good Woman" blends the profane and poetic. Geoff Berner’s "The Fiddler is a Good Woman" pieces together the fictionally fragmented life of a... Read More