A town and its residents are thrust into crisis by the ambitious plans of a wealthy resident in the insightful novel "Zodiac Pets". In Eric Giroux’s exciting novel "Zodiac Pets", a student writer and her editor come to terms with their... Read More

"Unsexed" is a brave, brilliant memoir about holistic self-reclamation after childhood abuse. Marina DelVecchio’s wrenching memoir "Unsexed" is about her unending search for love. Its details exquisite and earthy, the book first covers... Read More

Celebrating women’s connections with heartfelt wit and emotion, the novel "There Are No Rules for This" is about unabashed grief and intentional joie de vivre. In JJ Elliott’s novel "There Are No Rules for This", an unexpected... Read More

Lally Pia was born in Sri Lanka and raised in Ghana. When she was a baby, a fortune teller told her father that she would be a doctor someday. Her memoir The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy is a testament to the importance of resilience and... Read More

Death is owed a debt, and a mother and daughter face underworld threats, in Rania Hanna’s lush fantasy novel "The Jinn Daughter". Nadine, a jinn, consumes the souls of the dead, which take the form of pomegranate seeds. She tells their... Read More

Moving through the ambiguities of language—English, Spanish, and Paraguay’s Indigenous Guaraní—the grin of a big cat shadowing his every unstealthy step through North and South American habitats and fixed ideas of manhood, Diego... Read More

Eeny, Meeny, and Miney Mole are sisters who live in a deep, dark burrow. Meeny and Miney are content in their predictable, quiet home, but Eeny longs to be part of the Up Above; she visits often—despite her older sisters’ scolding.... Read More

“Reader, I married him”—–yes, Corey Van Landingham did. Jane Eyre acknowledgements aside, looks to the heavens to help comprehend just what that makes her. As her sidekick, we’re in for a dazzling ride of allusion, wit,... Read More