A traumatized psychologist’s story is used to illuminate and humanize general therapeutic guidance in the soothing allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us". In Shahrzad Jalali’s Jungian allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us", a... Read More

A woman explains her personal successes to a journalist in the reflective novel Behind the Mirror. In Bridget Budd’s inspiring novel Behind the Mirror, a woman with lifelong emotional challenges explains her gradual process of personal... Read More

Insurgency and sociopolitical revolution link those fighting for freedom in Sharmini Aphrodite’s luminous short story collection, "The Unrepentant". Set in twentieth-century Malaya, the book’s fourteen stories share a tone of... Read More

Mireille Best’s multifaceted novel "Hymn to Moray Eels" is about queer attraction, social expectations, and the intricacies of women’s friendships in 1950s France. Adolescence made sixteen-year-old Mila feel exposed and vulnerable.... Read More

Andrew Furman’s wondrous novel "The World That We Are" connects young Henry David Thoreau with a contemporary college professor. In 1837, twenty-year-old Thoreau resigns from his position as a schoolteacher after his superiors insist... Read More

A percipient girl narrates her tumultuous life experiences in "Carnaval Fever", Yuliana Ortiz Ruano’s lyrical, pulsing novel. In the 1990s, in Ecuador’s Afro-Ecuadorian neighborhood of Esmeraldas, Ainhoa lives at her grandmother’s... Read More

Janet Burroway’s prismatic historical novel "Simone in Pieces" follows a Belgian World War II refugee from her traumatic relocation to England to her later life in the United States. In 1940, nine-year-old Simone boards a “trawler”... Read More

Nineteenth-century gender restrictions are portrayed with focused eloquence in the startling historical novel "Silent Cauldron". In E. B. Moore’s disquieting historical novel "Silent Cauldron", a Quaker girl disguises herself as a boy... Read More