Literary Fiction

Properties of Thirst

Properties of Thirst was completed after the author’s stroke in 2016, through a process of creative collaboration between Marianne Wiggins, her daughter, and editor David Ulin. We are lucky to witness and experience the result.

Properties of Thirst was completed after the author's stroke in 2016, through a process of creative collaboration between Marianne Wiggins, her daughter, and editor David Ulin. We are lucky to witness and experience the result.

The Poet’s House

By Jean Thompson

The hero of Jean Thompson’s novel is like the finest poems: complex and wondrous, with hidden mysteries and graces that aren’t immediately apparent.

The hero of Jean Thompson's novel is like the finest poems: complex and wondrous, with hidden mysteries and graces that aren't immediately apparent.

Our Missing Hearts

By Celeste Ng

Our Gen

By Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Focusing on a group of people that isn’t often at the center of stories filled with love, sex and laughter, Our Gen is warm and smart, accessible yet meaningful, a beach read with strong writing and emotional heft.

Focusing on a group of people that isn't often at the center of stories filled with love, sex and laughter, Our Gen is warm and smart, accessible yet meaningful, a beach read with strong writing and emotional heft.

The Last White Man

By Mohsin Hamid

With his fifth novel, a thoughtful allegory featuring a Gregor Samsa-esque physical transformation of light skin to dark, Mohsin Hamid reminds us yet again that fiction sometimes provides the most direct path to truth.

The Force of Such Beauty

By Barbara Bourland

Drawing inspiration from real-life royalty and the fantasies that are constructed for the outside world, Barbara Bourland’s third novel leaves readers wondering if any fairy tale is worth our desire.

Drawing inspiration from real-life royalty and the fantasies that are constructed for the outside world, Barbara Bourland's third novel leaves readers wondering if any fairy tale is worth our desire.

Cyclorama

By Adam Langer

A theatrical cyclorama is a cylindrical curtain or wall that’s positioned to form a panoramic background for the staged action. Like such a device, Adam Langer’s novel reveals how the past echoes through the present and continues to shape our futures.

A theatrical cyclorama is a cylindrical curtain or wall that's positioned to form a panoramic background for the staged action. Like such a device, Adam Langer's novel reveals how the past echoes through the present and continues to shape our futures.

Briefly, a Delicious Life

By Nell Stevens

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.

A Map for the Missing

By Belinda Huijuan Tang

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.

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.