In Alex Mullarky’s novel "The Edge of the Silver Sea", a city girl uprooted by her parents’ dreams tries to find her way home. Upon Blair’s first glimpse of her new home, Roscoe, from the ferry, she is stunned by its terrain, which... Read More

Based on Dac Trung Tran’s childhood in Vietnam, this picture book illustrates the invisible hand of a mother’s love guiding her son’s steps. A child wakes early; his mother has already left for work, leaving him a note listing what... Read More

Comedy stirs between like-minded writers and meddlesome matchmakers in John J. Jacobson’s romance novel "Cupid on the Loose", about Californians who bond over Shakespeare. Billy is an aspiring novelist with a penchant for old-fashioned... Read More

A woman seeks direction in her life in the gorgeous graphic novel "The Girl Who Flew Away". In 1976, Greer is pregnant with the child of her married boss, Dick. With few other options, she complies as Dick shuttles her from Pittsburgh to... Read More

In Roger Celestin’s haunting novel "The Delicate Beast", a man’s early experiences in the Tropical Republic are contrasted with his life in exile in the United States and Europe. A boy grows up in the Tropical Republic in the 1950s,... Read More

Shifting between Nigeria and the US, Olufunke Grace Bankole’s novel "The Edge of Water" is about the separation and reunion of mothers and daughters. Esther details her experience of motherhood through letters to her daughter Amina,... Read More

A smitten Omani man’s beekeeping consumes Zahran Alqasmi’s novel "Honey Hunger". Returning to his home village after a tough winter that forced the temporary relocation of his bee colony to the desert region of Juba, Azzan, a... Read More

In Eva Menasse’s historical novel "Darkenbloom", the wartime secrets of a small Austrian town are compromised by the urgent demands of the present. The book begins in 1989 in the Austrian village of Darkenbloom. Though it’s no longer... Read More