In Noa Silver’s novel "California Dreaming", a recent college graduate tries to live up to her mother’s reputation. Using her rebellious mother’s story as a template, Elena moves to Oakland with Teach for America. She’s sure her... Read More

Anything can spark and hold a memory according to Dorothy Chan’s poetry collection "Return of the Chinese Femme". Across five sections, the poems’ speaker luxuriates in memories of childhood, family, and past and current lovers.... Read More

Jim Roberts’s gritty short story collection Of Fathers & Gods reconciles ideas of fatherhood with faith. Told from a miscellany of viewpoints, these stories are forceful when it comes to the most challenging parts of being human.... Read More

A lonely hairdresser finds comfort and inspiration in an unlikely place in Stéphane Carlier’s effervescent English-language debut, "Clara Reads Proust". The people working at the Cindy Coiffure hair salon are a dissatisfied bunch.... Read More

A work of primordial feminine beauty, "Night of the Hawk" is a poetic pleasure. Sarah Lawrence graduate Lauren Martin’s "Night of the Hawk" is an expansive book of poetry. Reading this panoramic collection is like flying, circling the... Read More

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