Multi-Period
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History
As Yetemegn lay dying, she was anxious to leave and yet worried that she had not fasted and prayed enough.…
The Map of Salt and Stars
Nour, a twelve-year-old Syrian-American girl, her two teenaged sisters, and their recently widowed mother, a mapmaker, have returned to Homs,…
A Fist Around the Heart
This is such a surprising book, one filled with layers inside layers and new revelations at every turn. Moving back…
The Hidden Side
Natalie works at a Christian radio station in 2016 New York. She uses the name Skye for privacy. She gives…
The Broken Girls
Editors' choice
In 1950, four roommates from Idlewild Hall, a New England boarding school for wayward girls, bond over the one thing…
Hotel on Shadow Lake
The novel begins with Martha Wiesberg in 1990. This part is quite brief, and the action immediately jumps back in…
The Darkling Bride
Hold up your hand, and tick off the Gothic conventions one by one: atmospheric, crumbling family home; older, brooding yet…
Rivers
Dutch writer Martin Michael Driessen’s novel, Rivers, was published originally in 2016 to critical acclaim, and it won the prestigious…
The Companion
Yorkshire in the 1930s, and Billy Shaw aged twelve, is sent to be a companion to another boy of similar…
House of Rougeaux
In the 18th century, Iya was taken from her African home and enslaved on a sugar cane plantation on the…
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