In Oindrila Mukherjee’s novel "The Dream Builders", the inhabitants of a developing Indian city seek happiness and prosperity in all the wrong places. Despite everything she has accomplished since high school—a PhD, a professorship... Read More

This is the inspiring nineteenth-century account of a gritty, determined man whose Alaskan adventures epitomized the “can-do” attitude that transformed a nation. Edited by his great-grandson John Clark, Hazelet’s Journal is an... Read More

"I Got It from Here" is a memoir about persistence and personal growth in spite of dire odds. Francesca Miracola’s memoir "I Got It from Here" is both a bid for understanding and a cautionary tale by a woman who married the wrong man.... Read More

We reckon that nine generations in Appalachia is long enough for a place to get in the bones of a family, and that kinheritance has marked Kari Gunter-Seymour with an intuitive feel for one of America’s most isolated and peculiar... Read More

Zig-zagging back and forth across time, Li Zi Shu’s "The Age of Goodbyes" is a kaleidoscopic family drama presented through multiple perspectives. The novel’s central focus is a book also titled "The Age of Goodbyes"; it follows the... Read More

A young girl is tucked into bed with her three stuffed rabbits, imagining all the essential chores they will accomplish while she sleeps—polishing the sun, dusting the butterflies, and stuffing clouds among them. Rhyming couplets... Read More

Love is the driving force in Alina Adams’s intimate novel "My Mother’s Secret", set in Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union. A firm believer in communism, Regina dreams of building a socialist Jewish society in Birobidzhan, the designated... Read More

Two best friends navigate their young adulthoods in Susen Edwards’s historical novel "What a Trip". Even as the Vietnam War rages on, Fiona and Melissa feel that they have bigger problems: Melissa needs an abortion and a reality check... Read More