This stunning debut novel is a twisting tale of grief, hope and self-deceit, a story as mesmerizing as the young women at its heart.
A thoughtful reader must wonder if bad luck alone explains the sorry fate of this wandering soul.
Satyal fashions a narrative tinged with melancholy and humor in this rewarding book, which engages with issues of gender roles and family ties.
Kate Zambreno’s new novel is a kind of inverted mindfulness exercise in book form, fixed on pinning moments down like so many butterflies.
Tara June Winch uses a dictionary of recovered indigenous words to transmit the deeper story of Gondiwindi family history.
This challenging and distinctive novel is a lot to balance, but Megha Majumdar’s writing stays grounded in these three characters’ voices.
The sea changes this family. They cannot go back to the lives they had before. ‘Sea Wife’ is brilliant, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful.
Francesca Momplaisir takes a classic literary form and combines it with contemporary issues in ‘My Mother’s House,’ narrated by the titular dwelling.
Vivid and at times surreal, this assured novel cements Julianne Pachico’s reputation as a gifted writer to watch.
In one moving scene after another, Julia Alvarez dramatizes the sustaining power of stories.
Reading Anne Tyler is always pure pleasure, and this is the author at her best.
More complicated, weirder and far more haunted than ‘Station Eleven,’ the new novel from Emily St. John Mandel defies all expectations.
A young Chinese American woman offers thoughtful reflections on gender, relationships and racial and ethnic identity in 21st-century America.
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