Rich Benjamin reckons with his family’s exile from Haiti in his vivid, novelistic memoir, Talk to Me.
Rich Benjamin reckons with his family’s exile from Haiti in his vivid, novelistic memoir, Talk to Me.
Rich Benjamin reckons with his family’s exile from Haiti in his vivid, novelistic memoir, Talk to Me.
Thomas Dai’s intimate essay collection and travelogue, Take My Name but Say It Slow, reflects on his life growing up queer and Chinese American in Tennessee.
Sweet but never saccharine, Sarah Perry’s collection of essays about candy, Sweet Nothings, is a book worth savoring.
Taylor Hutton’s morally ambiguous characters make Strike and Burn a can’t-look-away dark romance.
Laura Kinsale’s Seize the Fire is a unique and memorable twist on the innocent woman-meets-cynical rake plot.
With its subtle humor and whiff of nostalgia about the inevitable passage of time, Scamp is likely to be kept on the shelf for years to come.
William Boyle has a pointillist’s eye for detail, and in Saint of the Narrows Street, you can smell the cigarette smoke and desperation wafting from the dive bar and the freezer lasagna reheated when the priest drops by uninvited.
Lindsay Jill Roth’s grounded Romances and Practicalities isn’t your average dating book—her practical advice proves that communication is sexy.
As readable as a novel, Bernadette Atuahene’s Plundered unspools the intricate story of how a nearly-bankrupt Detroit unconstitutionally overtaxed homes in poor Black neighborhoods.
In Nancy Johnson’s second novel, People of Means, she follows a mother and daughter grappling with the ideals of Black excellence and realities of racial discrimination in 1960s Nashville and 1990s Chicago.
Hannah Bonam-Young balances grief and loss with irreverent humor in her exploration of a marriage on the rocks in Out of the Woods.
The 40th installment of Jonathan Kellerman’s Delaware and Sturgis series, Open Season is fast-paced, suspense-laden and boasts a true surprise ending.
No Purchase Necessary is an entertaining, thought-provoking read rife with suspenseful twists and turns and well-drawn characters, and enlivened by the witty, appealing voice of its protagonist.
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