On the path to wisdom, traumas turn into hope in the thought-provoking domestic novel "The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair". In Meg Myers Morgan’s visceral novel "The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair", a woman’s... Read More

Love is a potent force in the surprising novel "Secrets at the Aviary Inn", in which unearthed secrets lead to new beginnings. A woman explores her family background in "Secrets at the Aviary Inn", MaryAnn Clarke’s engaging novel about... Read More

Following a sisters’ search to understand their mother’s death, "When People Leave" is a stirring novel. In Leslie A. Rasmussen’s domestic novel "When People Leave", family members learn valuable lessons about their relationships.... Read More

Focused but episodic, the novel The Things They Didn’t See is about the sharp realities surrounding grief. In Angela Shaeffer’s heartrending novel The Things They Didn’t See, a family navigates the serious fallout of a boy’s... Read More

Be Steadwell’s novel "Chocolate Chip City" is about gentrification and protest. It is also a hymn to Black love, Black queerness, and Black spirit that pulses with the joy of existence. The Jones sisters—Ella, Jasmine, and... Read More

Family, loyalty, and forgiveness are at the center of Leslie Gray Streeter’s humorous novel "Family and Other Calamities". Dawn, a self-made Black journalist, is the founder of the online entertainment publication Glitter. Her hard... Read More

Two friends deal with the loss of their former bandmate in Magnus Merklin’s moving graphic novel "DiSCONNECT". After forming their band in high school, three twenty-year-old friends look forward to the future. But one dies, and a year... Read More

What was supposed to be a chill gig turns into a lurid exhibition from which an indie musician fears she may never recover in Lydi Conklin’s lush novel "Songs of No Provenance". To escape the reality of what she’s done, Joan drives... Read More