Across more than a century, three women connected by a narrative persist beyond the brokenness of their worlds in "A Line You Have Traced", Roisin Dunnett’s stunning speculative novel. At the end of World War I, brilliant Bea assists... Read More

Familiar yet otherworldly, Errick Nunnally’s novel "The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile" follows a Black boy growing up in 1970s Boston. Approaching his teenage years, Sean listens to his mother Sojourner’s stories about... Read More

Colorful, patterned illustrations and music lyrics combine to create a children’s picture book that inspires wonder and reverence for the natural world—and all its inhabitants. A mother and daughter spend a day in their community... Read More

The global slave trade backgrounds Solange Burrell’s fantastical coming-of-age novel "Yeseni and the Daughter of Peace", about what it truly means to act in favor of the greater good. In eighteenth-century West Africa, sixteen-year-old... Read More

Eavesdrop on the quiet chaos of a Viennese apartment building through Dominik Barta’s provocative novel Overheard, wherein the lives of its tenants converge to reveal tender truths. Kurt, a gay German and English teacher, settles into... Read More

In Natalia Theodoridou’s haunting novel "Sour Cherry", women are entrapped by the gluttonous monstrosities of their sons and husbands. To elucidate her husband’s abuse, a mother tells her child a story about a cursed lord. She begins... Read More

The skillful poems of Songs from Fern’s Pond explore loss, family, and the power of human will. Sheryl Pothier Harmer’s Songs from Fern’s Pond is a stirring poetic tribute to her mother, who staked out a solitary, hardscrabble... Read More

A fascinating, multifaceted collection of armchair treks, Linda Cracknell’s travel memoir "Doubling Back" is about revisiting significant places on foot. Cracknell’s walks, undertaken sometimes solo and at other times with... Read More