Graywolf Press

Questions 27 & 28

By Karen Tei Yamashita - Published 2026

Genres:

Literary

In response to the December 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the detention of ...Read Review

The High Heaven

By Joshua Wheeler - Published 2025

Genres:

Literary

Izzy, child of a UFO cult in the New Mexico desert, is orphaned in 1967 when her cult leader tangles fatally with the local ...Read Review

Season of the Swamp

By Lisa Dillman (trans.) - By Yuri Herrera - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

A beautifully haunting read, Season of the Swamp still has me in its enthralling grip. It follows the immigrant exile Benito Juárez ...Read Review

The Colonel’s Wife

By Rosa Liksom - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Rosa Liksom’s novel is amazing, powerful, and remarkable, and everyone should read it, including, again, me. The Finnish author delves deeply into ...Read Review

Children of God

By Lars Petter Sveen - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

Translated from Norwegian, thirteen somewhat interlocking vignettes portray life on the edge of society in Israel at the time of Jesus. Roman soldiers ...Read Review

She Would Be King

By Wayetu Moore - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

Though her mother delayed as much as she could, Gbessa is born on the day that Ol’ Ma Nyanpoo’s house collapses upon ...Read Review

Song of the Shank

By Jeffery Renard Allen - Published 2014Published 2014-06-17

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Tom Wiggins was born a slave in Georgia in 1849. He was blind, and also appears to have been autistic—what was once unkindly ...Read Review

The Last Brother

By Nathacha Appanah - Published 2011

Genres:

EpicLiterary

After a mudslide kills his two brothers, nine-year-old Raj and his parents leave the cane fields of Mauritius for the city of Beau-Bassin, ...Read Review