Category: Fiction

Sterling Karat Gold | Isabel Waidner | Aspiring writer Sterling is arrested one morning, without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world, Sterling – with

The Unfortunates | J K Chukwu | An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college, is determi

Your Driver Is Waiting | Priya Guns | Damani is tired. Her father just died on the job at a fast-food joint, and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in a basement, caring for her mom and dr

The Thirty Names Of Night | Zeyn Joukhadar | Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new o

Exciting Times | Dolan Naoise | An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female

Stray City | Chelsey Johnson | A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging–to a city, a culture,

Vagabonds! | Osunde Eloghosa | ‘In Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused and displaced and vul

Light Reclaimed: Billie Knight | Teja Rhae Watson | It’s June 2020, and on top of the Covid shutdowns and racial justice revolution, Billie Knight’s dad just died. She soon realizes he wasn’t the one wh

Queerly Beloved | Susie Dumond | ‘At her day job in a Christian bakery and with her conservative family, Amy plays the role of a straight, church-going young woman-exactly what’s expe

The Other Mother | Rachel M. Harper | ‘Raised by a single mother in Miami, Florida, Jenry Castillo, newly arrived at Brown University on a music scholarship, finds himself searching for in