Honorae de Balzac | The Girl With The Golden Eyes And Other Stories | Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form be
Maytee Aspuro y Gonzalez | Emet | In the final volume of her trilogy, Maytee Aspuro Y Gonzalez explores betrayal, forgiveness and the daunting task of reconciliation. Driven by her unc
Chinelo Okparanta | Under The Udala Trees | Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to s
Penelope J. Stokes | Delta Belles | The author of Circle of Grace hits all the right notes in this uplifting novel about the reunion of the Delta Belles, a music group that takes
Lawrence Durrell | Mountolive | Minor lesbian content in the tetralogy (listed here as a series), each of which tells various aspects of a complex story of passion and deception from
Zelda Lockhart | Fifth Born Ii: the Hundredth Turtle | Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle is sequel to the novel Fifth Born. Set in New York s Harlem and in rural Mississippi during the late 1970 s
Roxane Gay | Difficult Women | Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection B
Iris Murdoch | An Unofficial Rose | After his wife’s death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect pa
Lisa Alther | Original Sins | They call themselves ‘The Five’ — Sally and Emily Prince and Jed, Raymond, and Donny Tatro. Convinced they are special, they spend their Tennessee ch
Anne Bernays | Short Pleasures | This is a first person account of the brief decline and fall of Nicky Hapgood, during and after boarding school and college. Nicky’s parents are rathe