Gold leaf and painterly illustrations with saturated colors are used to follow the life of Rumi, the renowned poet and scholar born in Iran in 1207. Herein, Rumi is imagined as a boy who delights in feeding the birds; a young adult... Read More

A timely reissue of Charlotte Haldane’s brilliant 1926 dystopian novel, Man’s World is set in a future where individual desires are sacrificed for communal good, women’s roles are prescribed, and genetic makeup is determined by... Read More

Consequences and forgiveness interweave in Michelle Cox’s enthralling historical novel The Fallen Woman’s Daughter, about a young heartland bride whose unfortunate choices create hardship for her children across decades. In the... Read More

Dual storylines connect across time in Erin Bartels’s historical novel "The Lady with the Dark Hair", about women who expand their visions of themselves through art. In midlife, Esther cares for her schizophrenic mother, a reclusive... Read More

Grace Loh Prasad’s memoir The Translator’s Daughter is about her life as an assimilated immigrant. Prasad left Taiwan when she was still a toddler. Even after her parents returned to Taiwan years later, she elected to remain in the... 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

In Daniel A. Olivas’s wry, entertaining novel inspired by the Mary Shelley classic, a “reanimated” man in near-future Los Angeles searches for love and identity while contending with bigotry and an uncertain past. Herein,... 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