Fariha Róisín’s novel sings of building joy within sorrow and spins a gossamer reverie that clings to the consciousness. Taylia grows up on the Upper West Side as the less loved younger daughter of a mixed race family. Her father is... Read More

Kim Hooper’s "All the Acorns on the Forest Floor" is a novel profligate in its pursuit of an idea: motherhood. As an organizing principle, motherhood is constructed across a series of chapter-long vignettes. Like the Fleetwood Mac song... Read More

Thao Lam shares her family’s history in this wordless tribute to the adults and children who were forced to flee Vietnam in the aftermath of the war. Its panels feature expressive collage art in murky shades with soft color accents,... Read More

In Kim Soom’s novel "One Left", an elderly woman recalls her experience in a Manchurian comfort station during the Pacific War. The main character, referred to as “she,” is taken away from her home at the age of thirteen, believing... Read More

In Faulkner’s Shadow is a lively literary memoir set in Oxford, Mississippi, the hometown of famed novelist William Faulkner. Oxford has produced more writers than most places. There’s competition, Lawrence Wells says, to see who... Read More

Introducing the next generation of travellers to the architectural feats of modern and ancient civilizations, the book includes the moai statues of Easter Island, the temples of Chichén Itzá, and the ethereal Neuschwanstein Castle, fit... Read More

Shoulders slumped and arms crossed, a sullen girl embarks on a wordless outdoor adventure with her parents. Inspired by Owens’s fond memories of exploring the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota, the book’s... Read More

Setsuko’s Secret is an intense, personal chronicle of the unconscionable internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Soon after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066,... Read More