In Suzanne Kamata’s novel "Cinnamon Beach", a man’s death brings together the grieving women in his family for a summer of self-reflection and discovery. To spread the final portion of Ted’s ashes, his family gathers along the... Read More

In prose drenched with awe, Charlie J. Stephens’s tender novel "A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest" takes a child’s perspective on the pains of being poor in rural Oregon. For eight-year-old Smokey, poverty is part of the landscape, just... Read More

The pieces of what’s left of a people colonized need caretaking, lionizing, and encouragement to come out into the sun. The job is left to poets who are also warriors. Descending from Alaska’s Lingít, Haida, and Yup’ik Native... Read More

A potent story of a diaspora coming-of-age, Denis Hirson’s memoir troubles the distance between inheritance and the lives we make for ourselves. In Hirson’s Johannesburg childhood, certain topics were forbidden, including politics... Read More

In Balsam Karam’s timely novel "The Singularity", the lives of two refugee women intersect with anonymous resonance. In an unnamed coastal city, a mother searches for her seventeen-year-old daughter, handing out flyers and begging for... Read More

In Lauren E. Rico’s emotive novel "Familia", two distant sisters receive life-changing results from a genetic DNA test. Gabby is an aspiring writer who lives in Brooklyn and works for the feature magazine Flux, where she and other... Read More

"Transformative Grief" is a spiritual self-help book that models compassion for all who are grieving. Grief counselor Tracee Dunblazier’s spiritual, metaphysical self-help book "Transformative Grief" bases its recommendations on... Read More

In Liliana Corobca’s provocative novel "Kinderland", unsupervised children navigate a Moldovan village under the dutiful eye of their elder sister. Cristina, Marcel, and Dan are siblings. Their parents left to work in Italy and Russia.... Read More