Literary Fiction

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.

“novelists like Julian Barnes can make excellent theologians and philosophers.”

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

“The Angel of Rome is highly recommended. The stories represent some of Walter’s best writing.”

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.

What could be more fun and exciting than being single and having a thriving business located right on the California waterfront?

“Annabel Thomas has a gift for creating character and a clear eye for this conflict in all human relationships.”

The Partition is a wide-ranging collection of nine short stories focusing on aging, loneliness, sexual identity, the brutal competition in the movie industry (“Late in the Day” and “Les ho

Maria Adelman’s How to Be Eaten has a fabulous premise—in modern day New York, five women gather for a trauma support group, each of them a modern reimagining of a fairy tale heroine.