It is fulfilling to accompany this charming narrator on his journey of transformation. A journey through intense grief is at the heart of Eugene Mirabelli’s deeply affecting novel, "Renato After Alba", a standalone follow-up to Renato... Read More

Roether has crafted a haunting, complete, and triumphant novel from one character’s perspective. It is a stellar and distinctive achievement. This Earth You’ll Come Back To, by Barbara Roether, is a singular, profoundly moving debut... Read More

Without shying away from the painful parts of life, this anthology celebrates the role of fathers in their daughters’ lives. Every Father’s Daughter: Twenty-Four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers, selected and presented by... Read More

One man’s quest for spiritual nirvana is composed of the carefully crafted and intricate details of his internal musings and external struggles. The life of San Franciscan Christopher Westall is well documented on the page, right down... Read More

Constructed as a back-and-forth conversation between two old friends, Joel Brewster and Aidan Allard, the novel follows their intertwining lives from school days, where they met, to the Greek isles, where they part and then reconnect... Read More

Can a victim be complicit in her own oppression? In this dense and historical novel, Carlos Franz attempts to answer that question through the story of Laura Larco, a philosophy professor residing in Berlin who is called back to her... Read More

For those who ever wondered what happened to John Smith after Pocahontas, this is the book for you. "The Leaves of Fate" is the third volume in the epic trilogy In the Land of Whispers, set 400 years ago in the American wilderness of the... Read More

Jaimy Gordon must be as passionate about horses and horseracing as the ensemble of characters she has created in "Lord of Misrule". Only a devotee could conjure the insider world of the sport to the equal satisfaction of the uninitiated... Read More