Debut novelist Laura Spence-Ash’s masterful character development enlivens the story of the Thompson and Gregory families and all of the love and tension between them.
Through intersecting stories of Vietnamese and American characters, Dust Child portrays the heart-wrenching collateral damage that resulted from a fleeting love during the Vietnam War.
This atmospheric and richly detailed novel is a compelling portrait of Hannah Elias, a Black woman who accrued enormous wealth in early 20th- century New York City.
Rachel Beanland’s choice to explore the 1811 Richmond fire from the perspectives of four very different people allows the story to go beyond facts and into the moral fabric of the time.
In Memoriam is a remarkably beautiful debut novel, both a gripping love-in-wartime story and a meditation on the futility and trauma of World War I.
Fans of Jennifer Rosner’s award-winning debut novel, The Yellow Bird Sings—about a Jewish mother and daughter hiding in Poland during World War II—will be pleased to see the author explore some related strands of history.
Weyward is a welcome addition to the feminist field of “witcherature,” perfect for fans of Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary.
Biography of X is a dazzling literary chimera, at once an epic and chilling alternate history of the United States and an intimate portrait of a woman coming apart at the seams.
Through Penny’s eyes, we see the beauty in the seemingly broken, in the flawed stories we tell ourselves—and what happens when those stories delightfully shatter.
Esther Yi has set a new standard for internet-influenced literature with Y/N, one of the most daring novels of the year.
It is important to stay happy, to maintain daily reminders of goodness and wonder, and in this collection, Eileen Myles helps us do just that.
Wonder and joy are prevalent throughout Clint Smith’s Above Ground, with odes to his children’s quirks and the idiosyncrasies of child rearing, including first smiles and hiccups.
By employing two forms, the couplet and the prose poem, Maggie Millner suggests that within uncertainty, there is room for personal complexity.
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