Category: Fiction

Alexia Arthurs | How to Love a Jamaican: Stories | Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a

Hannah Moskowitz | Not otherwise specified | Auditioning for a New York City performing arts high school could help Etta escape from her Nebraska all-girl school, where she is not gay enough for

Trifonia Melibea Obono | La Bastarda | ‘The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village inclu

Brandy T. Wilson | The Palace Blues | It is the age of bathtub gin, jazz–and lines. Lines not to be crossed, and certainly not by women.

Ladies sing the blues at The Palace and

Maureen Brady | The Question She Put to Herself | 12 stories

L. Riley Savon | Jupiter Rising | Arbor Ross is at the end of her rope. 14 months after the suicide of her lover she is isolated both emotionally and physically. One of her only comfor

Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor

“[A] shrewd and lyrical

Truman Capote | Breakfast At Tiffany’s | In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the liter

Freda Lingstrom | Axel | Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits suicide; the girl, Aurio

Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she