Category: Fiction

Caren J. Werlinger | Looking Through Windows | Everything can change in a second and nothing is ever the same. Emily had to rebuild her life… her sense of self. How far would she go to hold on to

Vance Bourjaily | The End Of My Life | When Thomas “Skinner” Galt leaves Greenwich Village to volunteer as an ambulance driver with the British Army, he anticipates the adventure of a lifet

Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte | Black Marks | ‘In this wonderfully intelligent novel, Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte explores a young woman’s complicated struggle to come to terms with her fractured past.

Catherine Jones | Wonder Girls | In 1928, Ida Gaze swims the Bristol Channel with the help of her best friend Freda. In 1937, on the instructions of the matron, a nurse at a maternity

Hazel Lin | The Moon Vow | Dr. Lien-Hua Wu, an Asian gynecologist, attempts to solve a patient’s sexual problems with her husband. She soon discovers the truth through a grueso

Helga Sandburg | The Wheel of Earth | Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older woman, Genevieve

Bernard De Voto | Mountain Time | Mr. De Voto at a lower literary level, if a more surely successful one, with a surgeon’s story and a love story sustained by a fair amount of emotiona

Jennifer Natalya Fink | Bhopal Dance | An imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster–and perhaps our own

On the night of December 2, in the midst of the Reaganomic era, a

Marcia Davenport | Of Lena Geyer | Well-known novel of the life of an opera singer. Lena has a young satellite and adorer, but Elsie is careful to say that while “gossip has had many cr

Ntozake Shange | Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo | Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three ‘colored girls,’ three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the ol