The matriarch of an Indian American family experiences an escalating health crisis in "Abundance", Hafeez Lakhani’s compelling novel. Across three decades, Indian immigrants Ramzan and Sakeena raise a family in South Florida while... 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

In Salma El Moumni’s sinuous novel "Farewell Tangier", a young Moroccan woman struggles with self-doubt, body dysmorphia, and cultural and sexual repression. From the age of ten, Alia notices men pursuing her with territorial... Read More

A struggling teacher is immersed in profound philosophical mysteries in the introspective novel "Café Philosophy". In M. A. Alsadah’s musing novel "Café Philosophy", a precocious teacher converses with unassuming strangers at a local... Read More

Truth is sought through conversations about logic, epistemology, theories of consciousness, aesthetics, and religion in "Gödel and the Incomplete Proof", a musing philosophical text. In Samuel E. Navarro’s fascinating philosophical... Read More

A luminous novel told in snippets, Susannah M. Smith’s "The Alchemy of Paradise" considers how best to live in the face of loss. An unnamed museum curator looks back on her idyllic childhood, wherein her father was an architect. While... Read More

Anna Nerkagi’s subtle but powerful novel "White Moss" captures generational shifts among Siberia’s indigenous Nenets people. Among the Nenets, nomadic reindeer herders in the polar tundra, little is easy. Traditions clash with the... Read More