Kimberly Duffy’s remarkable mother-daughter tale is set in the intriguing world of turn-of-the-century circus performers.
Ayobami Adebayo has a sprightly writing style that’s pleasurably at odds with the devastating story she tells in A Spell of Good Things.
Though set in the early 2000s, Endpapers still feels timely, leading us to reflect on how far we’ve come in accepting differences and how far we still have to go.
Immigrant and refugee experiences can be surreal and nightmarish, but for those lucky enough to reach their destination, life can be filled with a sudden Kafkaesque dark humor. Such is the case for Nazli Koca’s protagonist, Leyla.
As Fiona McFarlane makes clear in this fine novel, the quest for contentment can be as elusive as a child lost in a dust storm.
Sonora Jha’s characters represent vastly disparate political ideas, but she handles each of them with great precision and care. With this novel, she offers us a creative window into the sociopolitical dynamics that continue to reinforce cultural divisions in this country.
Like a country music ballad, The Farewell Tour offers a bittersweet testament to the healing power of old love, long friendships and heartfelt songs.
Few authors could pull off what Cathleen Schine does in Kϋnstlers in Paradise: creating a seamless, multilayered saga about family dynamics and relationships, immigration, the early days of Hollywood and the often disturbingly cyclical nature of history.
Weyward is a welcome addition to the feminist field of “witcherature,” perfect for fans of Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary.
Jocelyn Green has penned a captivating, multilayered mystery in The Metropolitan Affair, set in New York City at the height of American Egyptomania.
Stephanie Landsem’s transfixing historical novel is peppered with rich descriptions of Los Angeles in 1933.
Jennifer Deibel has done it again with The Maid of Ballymacool, a hopeful historical romance novel set in Donegal, Ireland, in the 1930s.
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