In Nina Berkhout’s tender novel, an opera singer falls in and out of love with both her craft and her spouse. After flopping on stage and damaging her vocal cords, Dawn is unable to find work as a singer. Coinciding with this tragedy,... Read More

A lost and audacious girl’s life story is reconstructed by the yearning child and grandchild she left behind in Sheila O’Connor’s poetic and precise semi-biographical novel, "Evidence of V". In 1935, a fifteen-year-old girl with... Read More

Sharon Harrigan’s "Half" mimics the triumphant defects of every family in its excavations of the peculiar remains of one. Narrated through the entwined perceptions and insights of identical twins, seldom heard by anyone other than the... Read More

Set in the wilds of rural Louisiana, "Stone Motel" brims with joy and pain. Morris Ardoin’s memoir is filled with snapshots of Cajun life, labyrinthine in their detail. Ardoin’s parents were blue-collar professionals who pooled their... Read More

In Kyle Richardson’s steampunk adventure "Beast Heart", two children are pushed to their extremes when catlike monsters stalk their city. In the city of Iron Bay, nine-year-old Gabby’s hand turns to smoke. Her mother hires an... Read More

A Wiccan woman reflects on her lifetime of magic in her thoughtful memoir "Broth from the Cauldron". Cerridwen Fallingstar’s charming memoir "Broth from the Cauldron" is full of anecdotes about everyday magic, spirituality, love, and... Read More

The judicial system’s bias against minorities has deep roots, acknowledges Garrett Felber in Those Who Know Don’t Say, which argues that the penal, or carceral, state expanded due to “dialects of discipline.” It shows that police... Read More

Judi Ketteler’s "Would I Lie to You?" surveys society’s levels of dishonesty and deception, showing that even seemingly sincere people can drift into untruths. Featuring analyses of honesty and guidance from experts in psychological... Read More