What to make of this daily plate?: divorced mother of two sons (one white, one Black). This life lot?: estranged from her own mother. This dealt hand?: caring for a partner through a mental health crisis. Even as her work takes full... Read More

You can lead a queer Asian American to the southern US (including Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Florida), but it takes an epiphany-laced collection of poems to understand why Siew Hii stayed. One, an extraordinary ability to... Read More

Monika Fagerholm’s hard-hitting experimental novel is about the aftereffects of gang rape. During a spring break party, Nathan and three other teenage boys restrained their classmate, Sascha, in the basement and raped her. A decade... Read More

In Anna Rosner’s bittersweet novel "Last Year with Maddy", a childhood friendship is tested by family challenges. Twelve-year-old Aviva finds it difficult to keep friends other than Maddy. The girls are as close as sisters—best... Read More

An advertising professional is hired to train an artificial intelligence bot in Justin Feinstein’s gripping epistolary novel Your Behavior Will Be Monitored. UniView is at the forefront of artificial intelligence development,... Read More

A woman maps cultural expectations and desires onto her ailing body in Egana Djabbarova’s singular novel My Dreadful Body. Tackling one body part per chapter, this bildungsroman follows Egana, an Azerbaijani daughter, as she learns... Read More

Linda Cracknell’s captivating memoir concerns her inherited personal connection to the waters of coastal Scotland and England. As an inspired Christmas present in 2015, Cracknell and her siblings gave their somewhat housebound, elderly... Read More

A passionate couple from different sides of the Soviet divide avoids discussing their inevitable rifts in Yelena Moskovich’s sultry, wrenching novel-in-verse, "Nadezhda in the Dark". During a “black-milk,” mournful winter, as... Read More