A troubled but resilient teenager and her friends are profiled in the suburban coming-of-age graphic novel "Rigsby WI". Beth is somewhat new to Rigsby, Wisconsin, where she is homeschooled by her Aunt Alice to escape her mother’s... Read More

Set in a postapocalyptic world, Ingvild Bjerkeland’s chilling novel "Beasts" is about children who hope to reunite with their father. Thirteen-year-old Abdi is the guardian of his five-year-old sister, Alva, since a beast killed their... Read More

In grief-soaked language, Lisa Sewell’s poetry collection "Flood Plain" meditates on the parallels of personal, ecological, and social loss, aching for the world with “a gust of triumph beneath / the syntax of regret.” Open... Read More