In Richard Van Camp’s moving novel "Beast", an Indigenous teenager and his friends fight a sinister evil threatening their hometown. Lawson is a member of the Dogrib tribe, which feuds with the Chipewyan tribe. As a Yabati, his role is... Read More

An immigrant contends with alienation and love in Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo’s spirited novel "The Tiny Things Are Heavier". Nigerian Sommy is a graduate student in Iowa, though she’s ambivalent about the virtues of the American... Read More

In Scott Alexander Hess’s pastoral novel "Drought", an isolated man inherits a farm and learns about the estranged relative who left it to him. When Parnell, an aimless orphan, inherits a tobacco farm from his Uncle Willy, he moves to... Read More

A forensic anthropologist and her partner travel abroad in search of the truth behind a boy’s brutal murder in the feverish dystopian novel "Not Long Ago Persons Found". A seven-year-old boy’s torso is found in a city’s river with... Read More

Be Steadwell’s novel "Chocolate Chip City" is about gentrification and protest. It is also a hymn to Black love, Black queerness, and Black spirit that pulses with the joy of existence. The Jones sisters—Ella, Jasmine, and... Read More

"The Enduring Wild" is Josh Jackson’s captivating portrayal of California wilderness under the Bureau of Land Management, including large wilderness areas in the Mojave Desert, Eastern Sierra, and the Lost Coast. The Bureau of Land... Read More

Set during the Great Depression, Terry Lee Caruthers’s historical novel "Red and Me" is a bittersweet story about a spunky girl and her bighearted hound. From the moment ten-year-old Marlene sees a skittish abandoned stray whose red... Read More

Attending to gaps in the Arthurian legends with care, Sam Davey’s captivating fantasy novel "The Chosen Queen" delves into the dangerous web of politics, religion, and magic that led to the birth of King Arthur. Through the... Read More