Memorable and fluid, professor Francesca T. Royster’s memoir "Choosing Family" blends her family’s history with her story of adopting an infant girl, juxtaposing personal life with political life and allowing each to illuminate the... Read More

David Mas Masumoto’s "Secret Harvests" shares the troubled history of two families alongside the extraordinary discovery of a long-lost relative. Soon after the Pearl Harbor attack, Masumoto’s grandparents and their children became... Read More

A frustrated piano teacher gains some much-needed clarity and perspective in An Yu’s novel "Ghost Music". Song Yan lives with her husband and mother-in-law, but family secrets and thwarted ambitions prevent her from developing a close... Read More

In Brenda Lozano’s "Witches", an Indigenous healer tells her story to a reporter who has her own unhealed wounds. Paloma was killed for being Muxe, a third gender recognized by the Zapotec, one of Mexico’s many Indigenous groups. The... Read More

Written from a womanist liberation perspective, Psyche A. Williams-Forson’s "Eating While Black" calls a cease and desist on policing Black Americans’ food choices and habits. Unpacking the ugly history of racist stereotypes,... Read More

Ellery Adams’s cozy mystery novel "The Vanishing Type" is a testament to women’s friendship—with sides of murder, romance, coffee, and baked goods. Nora is the owner of Miracle Books in North Carolina, in a town where visitors come... Read More

Erica Gies’s book documents how conventional water control efforts damage ecosystems and the water cycle, and how they are overwhelmed by natural disasters driven by climate change. Still, whether in Midwestern floodplains, Vietnam’s... Read More

In Meron Hadero’s short story collection "A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times", Ethiopian emigrants strive to find their places in the world. Leaving one’s home country, even for a good reason, takes courage and resilience. So... Read More