With its absorbing and deceptively simple narrative, Stone Yard Devotional is a beautiful testament to the rudiments of shedding the unessential and living a life of intention.
With its absorbing and deceptively simple narrative, Stone Yard Devotional is a beautiful testament to the rudiments of shedding the unessential and living a life of intention.
The very nature of reality might turn on what becomes of the fascinating lead character in Karen Thompson Walker’s The Strange Case of Jane O.
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel’s powerful debut, focuses on eight teenage boxers—all women—who are contending for a title at Bob’s Boxing Palace in Reno, Nevada.
In Jeremy Gordon’s See Friendship, a journalist’s podcast about the legacy of his dead classmate evolves into a personal reckoning.
Dream State is a packed saga of the very best kind, full of funny, believable dialogue and memorable characters who will leave readers with plenty to contemplate about life’s most vital aspects.
A harrowing tale of sacrifice, survival and identity, Nanda Reddy’s A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl presents an unvarnished look at how the American Dream can morph into a nightmare for immigrants.
It’s great to see a second novel forthcoming from the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award. In The Wilderness, Angela Flournoy expands from exploring sibling connections to chronicling the complicated relationships among five women traversing adulthood from their 20s into middle age.
Readers have waited a long time for Kiran Desai’s third novel—since 2009, when The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny was first announced! The Booker Prize winner’s upcoming work is an epic tale of the human need for connection following two young Indian Americans and the events that bring them together and drive them apart.
In these 17 stories from Amanda Peters, author of The Berry Pickers, it’s easy to appreciate her characters’ pain and hope, and in particular, their profound love for the natural world.
In her first novel, playwright Betty Shamieh has crafted a page turner that is not only funny and of its time, but also steeped in history, questioning the age-old adage that time heals all wounds.
Mothers and Sons is a touching story about the self-inflicted pain of long-buried memories, once again demonstrating Adam Haslett’s ability to produce graceful, emotionally affecting realist fiction.
Going Home marks the debut of a gifted writer whose readers will find themselves feeling better, somehow, about the world.
In Gliff, Ali Smith offers a paradoxical benediction over life in our increasingly anxious age: “Unbelievable believable hope. . . . Impossible, possible.”
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