Category: Fiction

Ellen Hawley | Trip Sheets | The publisher’s description of Trip Sheets as ‘funny’ does a disservice to a thoughtful, realistic novel about desire and uncertainty. When Cat

Amanda Boulter | Around the Houses | Anna is an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation. She’s having a baby, the father’s gay, her lover’s a woman and she still hasn’t told her pare

Ilham Mansour | I Am You | A groundbreaking work which was first published in Beirut in the year 2000 by Riad el-Rayyes, I Am You (Ana Hiya Anti) is the only novel in Arabic whi

Dani O’Connor | Eyes of Gray | Grayson Thomas was the typical college senior with typical friends, a typical job and typical insecurities about her future. One Sunday morning, Gray’

Naomi Holoch | Offseason | Miriam, a translator of French fiction and a former academic, has been in love with her mysterious and apparently heterosexual (as in married to a man

Carol Anshaw | Aquamarine | Olympic swimmer Jesse Austin is seduced and consequently edged out for a gold medal by her Australian rival. From there, Anshaw intricately traces thr

Fiona Cooper | Heartbreak on the High Sierra | ‘`I heard there was a place a woman could hang her hat up without any trash bothering her.’ This is the wary hope of the enigmatic, world-weary report

Margaret Erhart | Old Love | From Publishers Weekly

With mixed results, Erhart (Augusta Cotton, 1992) uses five first-person narrators to explore issues of sexual identity and

Stephanie Grant | Map of Ireland | In 1974, when Ann Ahern begins her junior year of high school, South Boston is in crisis — Catholic mothers are blockading buses to keep Black childr

Ann Allen Shockley | Celebrating Hotchclaw | Alice Walker (The Color Purple) wrote of Loving Her ‘ : ‘In its exploration of a daring subject boldly shared I think (the novel)?.enab