The sense of a stolen childhood lingers throughout this coming-of-age novel about growing up with an alcoholic parent. In Doug Bari’s raw coming-of-age novel And Then I Met Elvis, a teenager’s life is impacted by his hard-drinking... Read More

Mother Simorq—equal parts witness, healer, and wise woman—offers a visionary alternative for women who transcend painful histories. Azadeh Azad’s "Thus Speaks Mother Simorq" gives voice to a mythological Persian bird woman. In... Read More

Anna Dahlqvist’s powerfully argued book It’s Only Blood explores how menstruation taboos affect women in different cultures around the world. Every day, eight hundred million people menstruate, yet most of them are shamed in some way... Read More