Category: Fiction

Jackie Kay | Trumpet | Jackie Kay’s mesmerizing and powerfully moving first novel is about the extraordinary life and seeming dissolution of a family — about the boundaries

Elizabeth Jane Howard | Odd Girl Out | Howard’s fifth novel is the story of a marriage that has lasted a decade and has settled into a comfortable and very pleasurable routine. Yet even the

Shay Youngblood | Soul Kiss | Soul Kiss, an eloquent first novel from well-known African-American playwright Shay Youngblood, opens as seven-year-old Mariah Kim Santos is un

Marnie Woodrow | Spelling Mississippi | From an acclaimed short-story writer, a blazingly intelligent and humorous debut novel that is set in New Orleans and tells the story of two stranger

Angela Hall | This Secret I Keep | Journeying through life with undisclosed secrets can make the very ground you walk on unstable. Close friends, Aire Johnson and Camille Douglas, learn

C. C. Saint-Clair | North and Left from Here | North and Left From Here includes a series of often poignant flashbacks set in the Spanish town of Mallorca, the island of Ibiza and the sand dunes of

Sarah Schulman | Girls, Visions and Everything | This novel takes readers on a ‘wry and playful’ (Out!) tour of lesbian sex, politics, and art in New York City. The city’s sizzling — especially at t

Anna Elisabet Weirauch | The Outcast | The Outcast” brings forward to its conclusion the story of Myra Rudloff, begun in “The Scorpion.” To those who read the previous work, the characters

Ali Liebegott | The IHOP Papers |