A novel of beauty and bracing nuance, "What the Living Do" follows a woman’s reconciliation to the pains of her past in pursuit of a better future. With precise language and bold themes, Susan E. Wadds’s novel "What the Living Do"... Read More

Earth burns, placing billions of people in a state of crisis in Natasha Pulley’s visionary novel "The Mars House". January accepts a spot on a refugee ship to Mars as a means of escaping the “fairy-tale nightmare” of fire-, flood-,... Read More

Polly Atkin’s memoir "Some of Us Just Fall" reveals the concentric circles surrounding chronic illnesses, drawing on history, experience, science, and literature to explore life lived in a liminal space with nuance. From toddlerhood... Read More

In Elaine McCluskey’s novel "The Gift Child", a former news photographer explores her genealogy following a mysterious disappearance. When her cousin, Graham, vanishes, Harriet is drawn back into the orbit of her narcissistic father,... Read More

A brooding, magic-wielding elf barges into a librarian’s secrets as she investigates her mother’s mysterious death in Amy Kuivalainen’s novel "Of Starlight and Midnight". After a violent war, elvish brothers Søren and Aramis are... Read More

A resourceful girl imparts a history lesson and a message on sustainability in this period picture book. It’s the late 1930s—and Nancy Bess’s turn to choose the patterned flour sack. Once the daisy-printed sack is empty, it becomes... Read More

Katherine Leyton relates her pregnancy experiences to larger issues of femininity, parenthood, and bodily autonomy in her memoir "Motherlike". Leyton and her husband planned to have a child, but not quite so fast: when she learned she... Read More

Cultures and generations clash in Maya Arad’s insightful novella collection "The Hebrew Teacher", which follows three storylines whose flows are sometimes concentric. Ilana is a Hebrew professor. She’s been at her school for “forty... Read More