In Frederika Amalia Finkelstein’s novel "Forgetting", an insomniac grapples with the past and the future of a world perhaps beyond saving. Alma’s grandfather did not die in a concentration camp, but sometimes she says he did. And... Read More

Afghani young adults face hazardous, uncertain futures in Siamak Herawi’s novel "Tali Girls". Kowsar was quite young when the government built a school in Tali, her village. Though she shows great academic promise, the Taliban ends her... Read More

Grieving lovers navigate mental illness and political upheaval in Rahad Abir’s novel "Bengal Hound". East Pakistan in the late 1960s is an impoverished place marked by unrest, but life continues on, for better and for worse. Mere days... Read More

A Korean family learns to live with their difficult history in E. J. Koh’s novel "The Liberators". Insuk and her newborn son, Henry, left Korea in the early 1980s to join her husband in California. But Korea will never leave them... Read More

"The Underwater Panthers" is an imaginative novel that is directed by the strange adventures of dedicated allies. In Charles Porter’s novel "The Underwater Panthers", the fourth volume in the Shallcross series, a voice-hearer, his... Read More

In the sensitive novel "Blaize Speaks", a girl and her friends forge new identities in the foster care system, learning to seek independence. In Kirk Ward Robinson’s second series novel "Blaize Speaks", a girl comes of age in the... Read More

In the unforgettable mystery novel "Journey to Merveilleux City", secrets are uncovered and epiphanies are reached in the course of a singular journey. In Stephanie Barbé Hammer’s novel "Journey to Merveilleux City", strangers on a... Read More

Avalanches of anxiety and poor decisions bury two reunited men in the compelling novel You Don’t Belong Here. In Jonathan Harper’s novel You Don’t Belong Here, a bisexual writer stumbles because of the ideological troubles of a... Read More