Galya Gerstman’s novel "Daughters of Jerusalem" follows three generations of Jewish women in early twentieth-century Palestine. In 1900 in Serbia, Lili and her husband,... Read More

In Michael Daley’s novel "Telémachus", a painter seeks to learn about Mac, the father who abandoned him. This update of the tale of Ulysses’s left-behind son includes a... Read More

"Perishable World" is poetry in its most lyrical form, blending the rhythms of human life and nature. Grief shows up in unexpected places in the poems of Alicia Hokanson’s... Read More

"Isaac" is profound and consequential historical fiction. Robert Karmon’s "Isaac" is a moving tale of a young Polish Jew trapped during the Holocaust, a person who joins... Read More

Subtlety and the meaning imbued into objects and action plunge this narrative forward through a plot of pursuit. After worrying over her new vow of silence, Dan reassures his... Read More

Swedish writer Inger Frimansson is back with a new thriller, "The Cat Did Not Die". After absorbing this psychological descent into madness you may want to rethink how private... Read More

"Leaving Yesler" encounters seventeen year-old Bobby Vincente in the wake of his older brother’s military death. Faced with the challenge of caring for his aging father, this... Read More

The prolific Swedish novelist Inger Frimansson scores again with "Island of the Naked Women" (Pleasure Boat Studio, 978-1-929355-56-3), a somewhat bleak psychological picture of... Read More

Like a good psychiatrist, Cohen shows how a character’s psyche is built upon family memories. Whether an argumentative couple on Catskills holiday with their only-child, a... Read More