Set in the summer of 1975 at a sleepaway camp in upstate New York, Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods is a devilishly clever work full of nerve-shredding suspense.
This cleverly plotted story unravels in a series of flashbacks as our protagonist, Teddy, tries to set the record straight to Italian detectives in the aftermath of an embassy party gone wrong.
Santiago Jose Sanchez’s debut, Hombrecito, is a queer coming-of-age following a boy’s life from Colombia to Miami to New York. It’s a heartbreaking pleasure to get lost inside these pages.
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer is a kaleidoscopic tour through the eventful life of an ER worker, father and Iraq War veteran by memoirist Joseph Earl Thomas (Sink).
As in her New York Times bestselling debut, The Most Fun We Ever Had, novelist Claire Lombardo dives deeply into her characters’ lives to mine the family dynamics that shaped them, delivering an engrossing story of the challenges of motherhood.
Tracy Chevalier’s 12th book is potent, bewitching and addictive as it elegantly glides along the line between historical drama and something more experimental.
In Thao Thai’s Banyan Moon, Vietnamese American artist Ann Tran struggles with the loss of her grandmother, Minh.
Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes’ moving multigenerational novel centers on Hi’i Naupaka, a hula dancer following in her mother’s footsteps but missing the full truth about her parentage.
Diane Marie Brown’s Black Candle Women tells the story of three fierce Black women united by the spells and elixirs that have been passed down in their family.
In Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi probes the complexity of the mother-daughter tie as newly married Antara and her mother, Tara, must come to terms with the past while facing an uncertain future.
We love a messy family drama, and Apples Never Fall fits the bill. It’s an exploration of marriage and sibling rivalry that follows four grown siblings who grapple with the disappearance of their mother and the likely culpability of their father.
Jessica Shattuck (The Women in the Castle) returns
with a sweeping historical saga mapping the lives of
one family in the decades following World War II.
Wildly successful young adult author Nicola Yoon’s first book for adults vividly captures the paradoxes and discontents of the striving Black middle class.
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