Lethem unwinds his story through small vignettes: You can smell the urban petrichor of a fire hydrant’s spray on a blistering asphalt street and you can taste that first drop of cheesy grease dripping from a folded slice.
People Collide is an inventive and atmospheric body-swapping novel that raises questions about gender, desire, marriage and family dynamics.
Death Valley is an exhilarating meditation on death, life, survival and how we use stories to get us through it all.
Sean Adams has dialed down the dystopian quotient from his first satirical novel, The Heap, but that element is still very much present in The Thing in the Snow.
In An Yu’s ethereal Ghost Music, a woman’s grip on her suffocating life loosens as she is drawn into a surreal world of unspoken secrets and ghostly experiences.
The Dream Builders is an elegant, intimate story about people adrift in a chaotic city, an unpredictable economy and a rapidly changing world. These characters long for home, belonging, stability and comfort, struggling to root themselves even as the ground shifts beneath them.
In this moving novel, V.V. Ganeshananthan traces the human aspects of war—the physical losses and tragedies as well as the conflicts of values that are often the true battlefields.
In this absorbing novel, Aanchal Malhotra spins a bittersweet family saga of love, loss and connection.
Natasha Lester’s central character is so strong that the rest of the narrative shapes itself to her like a well-tailored gown, making The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre a wonderfully human and utterly gripping work of historical fiction.
Kai Thomas’ debut novel is written with great power and a beautifully heightened eloquence that calls to mind the exhortations of the old abolitionists.
In his second novel, De’Shawn Charles Winslow invites readers on an satisfying ride that, through his keen observations of human nature, leads to deeper considerations of the glacial progress of racial equality.
Romance fans should try this trope-filled series starring co-workers who become something more.
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