A gifted man caught between his parents’ two cultures seeks greater peace and understanding between communities in the thoughtful novel "A Meticulous Plan". In A Mohit’s celebratory novel "A Meticulous Plan", diverse beliefs are... Read More

The thoughtful novel "Intersections" undertakes a compelling exploration of unexpected friendships and hard choices. Karen F. Uhlmann’s ruminative novel "Intersections" is about tough family relationships and difficult mercies. When a... Read More

An earnest, inquisitive woman faces horrors in her daily life, but may be rescued by motherhood, in the evocative novel "The Unseen Goddess". A woman sees goddess images everywhere, though none seem to be protecting her, in Sangeetha... Read More

In Sydney Dunlap’s stirring novel "Racing the Clouds", a girl navigates complex family relationships on her path to forgiveness. After a sudden move from Philadelphia to rural Virginia with her father, thirteen-year-old Sage’s world... Read More

An action-packed, heartfelt coming-of-age story, Lee Sanders’s novel "Under the Light of Fireflies" is set during an eventful summer. In the summer of 1981, twelve-year-old Noah expects his biggest concerns to be Little League, his... Read More

Megan Rogers’s engrossing novel "The Heart Is a Star" dissects life, love, and truth. Layla, a troubled mother, wife, and anesthesiologist, navigates a turbulent life and an uncomfortable past. When her distant mother calls with... Read More

Laden with symbolism, Jen Doktorski’s heartrending novel "Finding Normal" follows two teenagers with disordered eating on a cross-country road trip. Gemma is sick of living on the hospital’s eating disorder floor. Forced to do group... Read More

In Zeeva Bukai’s novel "The Anatomy of Exile", a Jewish Israeli mother struggles to reconcile herself to a tragedy from her past while watching a similar situation unfold for her own daughter. Tamar’s sister-in-law, Hadas, is killed... Read More