First generation immigrants navigate their striated society in Shida Bazyar’s pointed novel "Sisters in Arms". Saya, Kasih, and Hani grew up in metropolitan Germany, bound by... Read More

In Jente Posthuma’s bittersweet novel What I’d Rather Not Think About, a woman who is bereft after her twin brother’s suicide searches to understand his mental illness.... Read More

A woman relives her traumatic sexual assault in Tatiana Salem Levy’s epistolary novel "Vista Chinesa". Júlia went for her daily run to Vista Chinesa, a lookout point in Rio... Read More

In Jay Carmichael’s novel "Marlo", two gay men navigate their relationship in Melbourne, Australia, in the conservative 1950s. Christopher has just moved to the big city,... Read More

In Amanda Svensson’s novel "A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding", a shocking secret forces three siblings to reevaluate their places in their family and the world.... Read More

In Becky Manawatu’s novel Auē, a Māori family comes to grips with its troubled past. After his parents drown and he survives, Taukiri only has his little brother, Ari. But... Read More

Nino Haratischvili’s multigenerational Georgian novel "The Eighth Life" spans the years between the Bolshevik Revolution and the early twenty-first century. It all begins with... Read More