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

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