A Zambian woman is prosecuted for murder in Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s gripping novel "The Shipikisha Club". After shooting her husband in self-defense, Sali faces the public fervor of a trial. Her teenage daughter and two young sons... Read More

In the adventure-filled novel "The Immortal Happerstadt", a prince leaves his ordinary upbringing to fulfill his destiny. In Kevin Goss’s busy fantasy novel "The Immortal Happerstadt", a gay prince raised as a peasant pursues a life of... Read More

In Shokoofeh Azar’s intricate fabulistic novel "The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen", an Iranian girl comes of age in a time of war. When a gowkaran tree—likened to the Tree of Life, though no one seems certain about its... Read More