Arafat offers a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings--for love, and a place to call home....

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most...

Sarah Mullins, an American woman, arrives at the Kingdom: a fading luxury apartment complex in Bangkok...

Cameron explores one little-known episode of that past: the effect of Napoleon’s invasion of 1796–97 on the Italian port city of Ancona....

What You Could Have Won (And Other Stories, 2020) is a novel about resilience and self-discovery in the face of control....

Ring Shout (Tordotcom, 2020) is a fantasy built around an ugly moment in American history—the emergence of the second Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century....

A young man visits his half-brother in Vancouver and steals a book that changes his life...

Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright...

Solving murders is just a past-time, but luckily, she has a keen eye for details and knows what it means when a boot print with a gaping hole is discovered near the bodies of several Chinese workers....

Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years...

Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago...

Like a storm waiting to break over a plain, Shakira Croce pulls at tensions and heartstrings in a debut collection filled with longing, wit, and intelligence...

The preteen would learn as he matured that his father had reserved his most ferocious attacks for him because of an inability to accept a gay or, to his mind, broken, son. It became his dad’s mission to “fix” his son...

In The Last Interview, a famous but stressed Israeli writer finds that the only way he can write is by answering a set of interview questions sent from a website...

Inspired by Leona Woods, the only woman who worked on the Manhattan Project, Atomic Love (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020) tells the story of Rosalind Porter, a physicist recruited by Enrico Fermi to join his team at the University of Chicago...

In a set up reminiscent of the show Orphan Black, four feisty young women struggle to make their way in the world, unaware that they are related...

Melissa Valentine and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother.

In Jasper Fforde’s "The Constant Rabbit," residents of the United Kingdom live among human-sized anthropomorphized rabbits...

In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain....

Set at the glittering Italianate court of King Zygmunt I of Poland/Lithuania and his son, Zygmunt August, these books map fictional plots onto real historical incidents to create fast-paced, fluid stories that are as much about the tensions of a culture in transition as what drives a person to commit murder....

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020) is a collection of linked short stories, which Luis Alberto Urrea called “a world-class collection.”

Kelly Harris-DeBerry creates the world anew from scraps of memories and rhythm...

At first, Miles Furling plays football to fit in. By eighth grade he realizes that he is both gay and a football player...

In the opening sentence of her introduction, Israel writes, “My last name, Israel, means one who wrestles with God. And wrestling is all I know.”

Jessica Gross is a valuable ally. An intuitive reader of Freud her debut novel--Hysteria (Unnamed Press, 2020)--embraces Oedipal conflict, unconscious fantasy, and voracious sexuality...