As Fiona McFarlane makes clear in this fine novel, the quest for contentment can be as elusive as a child lost in a dust storm.
Sonora Jha’s characters represent vastly disparate political ideas, but she handles each of them with great precision and care. With this novel, she offers us a creative window into the sociopolitical dynamics that continue to reinforce cultural divisions in this country.
Like a country music ballad, The Farewell Tour offers a bittersweet testament to the healing power of old love, long friendships and heartfelt songs.
Few authors could pull off what Cathleen Schine does in Kϋnstlers in Paradise: creating a seamless, multilayered saga about family dynamics and relationships, immigration, the early days of Hollywood and the often disturbingly cyclical nature of history.
Weyward is a welcome addition to the feminist field of “witcherature,” perfect for fans of Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary.
Jocelyn Green has penned a captivating, multilayered mystery in The Metropolitan Affair, set in New York City at the height of American Egyptomania.
Stephanie Landsem’s transfixing historical novel is peppered with rich descriptions of Los Angeles in 1933.
Jennifer Deibel has done it again with The Maid of Ballymacool, a hopeful historical romance novel set in Donegal, Ireland, in the 1930s.
Vaulting ambition and the willful blindness that can accompany it form the tragedy of Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton’s second novel after her 2013 Booker Prize-winning debut, The Luminaries.
In a world where well-heeled heels are arrested for cryptocurrency scams, squillionaires gleefully trash their own vanity projects and masters of the universe disgrace themselves over and over, Confidence’s arrival is beyond timely.
I Have Some Questions for You is a well-plotted indictment of systemic racism and misogyny craftily disguised as a thriller and beautifully constructed to make its points.
In his debut novel, Gerardo Sámano Cordova attempts to describe the nameless grief of losing a child by showing how resisting it can destroy us.
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