Kim Michele Richardson’s companion novel to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is immersive from the very beginning.
The story of an impoverished peasant girl caught up in the tumult of Chairman Mao’s China comes to life through the fullness of Vanessa Hua’s imagination.
Adriana Trigiani’s The Good Left Undone is a gorgeously written story about intergenerational love and trauma and the power of a life well lived.
Monica Ali’s Love Marriage is a multicultural family drama as a multi-car pileup, as individuals careen into and away from one another.
In her striking multigenerational epic, Vauhini Vara combines three distinct stories into a genre-bending, kaleidoscopic spiral of a tale.
Jennifer Egan’s empathetic interest in human behavior is what drives The Candy House, making her companion novel to A Visit From the Goon Squad more than just a literary experiment.
First-time novelist Tara M. Stringfellow celebrates the city of Memphis as not only a place but also a people, a culture and, most importantly, a community.
Hold on tight, as the space-time ride in Rachel Barenbaum’s second novel, Atomic Anna, is far beyond the ordinary.
Helping Howard is at once a funny, fizzy rom-com; a tense, discomfiting family drama; and an act of full-on narrative experimentation.
The love story of Blair Fell’s deafblind hero is tender, hilarious and decidedly uplifting.
Madi Sinha’s direct and diverting bedside manner gets straight to her thought-provoking points on women and work in her second novel.
Akwaeke Emezi shifts effortlessly into the mode of poet, exploring spirituality and loss in ways that feel fertile and new.
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