“Small, determined” Su-Kyoung lives in a lovely village beneath a mountain. Her people fish each day for the food they need, taking no more than that from the nearby stream. Then a visitor calls their practices into question,... Read More

Near the end of Earth’s life span, two women make meaning in each other’s uncommon company in Deb Olin Unferth’s dazzling dystopian novel "Earth 7". From an isolated pod on the seabed, a lonely, anxious girl, Dylan, sends messages... Read More

What is sweet can also immobilize you in Geoffrey D. Morrison’s alarming, wondrous speculative novel "The Coffin of Honey", a searing indictment of capitalist destruction wrapped in the pleasures of a first contact tale. Amid the... Read More

Valérie Perrin’s "Tata" is a bewitching novel about found family and the transformative power of love. Agnes mistook her Aunt Colette for being a “simple and linear” woman whose life was “devoid of mystery.” She loved her... Read More

An isolated feminist community falls short of its utopian ideals in Keely Jobe’s intoxicating surrealistic novel "The Endling". A few springs into Frank and her niece Mila’s tenure in a women’s commune on a Tasmanian mountain, the... Read More

Luna was the best dog a boy could ask for, brought home from the farmer’s market when the narrator was six. She taught him patience, openness in friendships, kindness, support, and love. Losing her devastated him to the extent that he... Read More

Anthropomorphized mice—a father and his child–go on an observational adventure in this sweet picture book about how all creatures and elements work their ways back home. The young mouse is eager to come along when their father says... Read More

This awe-inducing ecological meditation in picture book form invites readers on a “never-ending journey through time and space.” Its ethereal, luxuriant illustrations overlay ghostly images of trees and people atop verdant landscapes... Read More