Warm and occasionally edgy, this self-discovery-on-the-road novel evokes meaningful memories. In Susan Jackson Rodgers’s quirky This Must Be The Place, Thea Knox has just... Read More

This is a lyrical, down-to-earth snapshot of a pocket of flawed humanity. "Remember My Beauties", by Lynne Hugo, chronicles the hauntingly poetic crumbling of a horse-breeding... Read More

A blend of tragicomedy and waning romance, "The Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath" explores uncomfortable material with biting humor. Rich in period details, and biting in its... Read More

Each character in this novel is drawn with color and depth, and they each have varying capacities to deal with change in their small town. Although it has a few fighting scenes,... Read More

Dark humor accents this exposé on cultural clashes between Chicago’s suburbs and working class in the 1990s. With his first novel, "When Bad Things Happen to Rich People",... Read More

Sensuous prose teases out peculiarities in ostensibly conventional host of characters. “Life itself … just prolong[s] the inevitable” reflects a character in Flannery... Read More