Adults encourage Leila to express her feelings, but some feelings seem too big to share: she is lonely. And scared. And melancholy for “normal.” Her mother is always tired; she’s lost her hair, and even picking out pretty scarves... Read More

Harrison Mooney’s moving memoir "Invisible Boy" concerns adoption, race, and racism in evangelical circles. In his adulthood, Mooney become an award-winning journalist. He worked for the Vancouver Sun for nearly a decade as a reporter,... Read More

Coming-of-age and coming out collide in Felice Cohen’s poignant memoir "Half In". When Cohen was a twenty-three-year-old recent college graduate, she faced her future with uncertainty. She hoped to become a full-time professional... Read More

Cheryl E. Klein’s memoir "Crybaby" is candid about living with infertility and cancer simultaneously, while also navigating everyday life. When Klein and her fianceé, CC, decided to start fertility treatments to have a child, their... Read More

Two young women develop a friendship and more while navigating work, magic, and love in "Doughnuts and Doom". Margot—a witch whose familiar is Stanley, a lovable snake—is forced to sell potions for a living because she can’t manage... Read More

Memory and traumas interfere with romantic love in Martha Anne Toll’s historical novel "Three Muses". John, an American psychoanalyst, is in Paris when he is handed a ticket to see a performance of Boris Yanakov’s masterpiece "Three... Read More

The situation is stark: those in less developed countries are “twenty times more likely to be affected by climate-related disasters.” In her forthright work of research and witness, "State of Disaster", Maria Cristina Garcia... Read More

A Black woman rebels against racism and class, finding her voice, in Kimberly Garrett Brown’s novel Cora’s Kitchen. In 1928, Cora James is an aspiring writer who works as a librarian in New York. She is aware of the privileged... Read More