Literary Fiction

“tightly crafted women’s fiction, with a sensitive look at love, conscience, and loyalty.”

“I did not know how to explain this stubborn love for my parents that I staggered under, iridescent and gigantic and veined with a terrible grief, grief for the ways their lives had been compost fo

Cyclorama is a stunning novel that weaves together past and present while reflecting on and questioning Anne Frank’s timeless assertion, “In spite of everything, I still believe that peopl

The stories in Maggie Shipstead’s You Have a Friend in 10A were published in literary journals between 2009 and 2017.

The Amish, known for being peace-loving and reticent, believe first and foremost in family and community.

Nineteen-year-old Avery helps her mother give birth to a baby boy who dies within ten minutes. While her female siblings care for their mother, Avery is given the task of burying the child.

“a masterpiece that works on both a grand scale, and a minute, more intimate one.”

At 128 pages, The Reservoir is described as a novella. Fever dream would be more apt.

Hilary Mantel is best known in America as the author of the historical trilogy, Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies, and The Mirror & The Light.

“Rarely does this novel read like correspondence. The prose is too fine, the settings too detailed, the pacing exquisite.”

“Greenland is another fine contribution to a growing canon of Black queer fiction.”

There are summer beach reads and then there are summer European beach reads.