Nell Stevens offers an inventive, imaginative approach to historical fiction, full of comic moments but also sorrow, violence and beauty. Her ghostly narrator is full of life, a wonderful guide to another time and place.
Bitingly funny and sweetly earnest, Sarah Thankam Matthews’ debut is one of those rare novels that feels just like life.
Belinda Huijuan Tang’s splendid debut novel follows a Chinese American son through a purgatory of twists and turns, red herrings and dead ends, in the search for his missing father.
In Fire Season, Leyna Krow plays fast and loose with the tropes of the frontier novel, leaning in to the notion of the unsettled West as a place where people could reinvent themselves.
Maggie Shipstead‘s collection of 10 short stories, all previously published, gives readers the inspiring experience of charting the maturation of one of America‘s finest authors.
The stories in Night of the Living Rez build on themselves the way a life builds: messily, unpredictably, with beauty and heartache and never quite in the way you expect.
Learning to Talk is a brief, unusual and ultimately fascinating amalgam of fact and fiction as two-time Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel sorts through the puzzle pieces of her past.
The tales in Jess Walter‘s The Angel of Rome and Other Stories aren‘t easily categorized, but each one provides a refreshingly honest glimpse into what it means to be alive.
Shirlene Obuobi‘s bighearted debut novel is a genuine delight from start to finish. Her exploration of various types of love‘platonic, familial and self‘is particularly gratifying.
The nature of tradition is at the heart of Tomi Obaro‘s rich novel, Dele Weds Destiny, about three college friends who reunite at a wedding in Lagos after three decades apart.
Whether you care about video games or not is beside the point. Gabrielle Zevin‘s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is the novel you‘ve been waiting to read.
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