Category: Fiction

Fiona Alison Duncan | Exquisite Mariposa | An unapologetically raw account of coming of age broke in Trump-era Los Angeles in the social media-saturated Now, this meditation (almost manifesto?)

Nicole Dennis-Benn | Patsy | When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it’s the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret l

Corinne Manning | We Had No Rules | A defiant, beautifully realized story collection about the messy complications of contemporary queer life.

A young teenager runs from her fam

Kate Milliken | Kept Animals | ‘Rory Ramos is a dutiful teenager with a love of photography who works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon, a dry,

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | Starling Days | The moving new novel by the author of Harmless Like You, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and NPR Great Read

On their first date

Natália Borges Polesso | Amora | From an emerging talent comes an exquisite collection of stories exploring the complexity of love between women, each a delicate piece in a mosaic tra

Emily M. Danforth | Plain Bad Heroines | The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered ar

Ilana Masad | All My Mother’s Lovers | People say all women turn into their mothers sooner or later. But what does that mean when it turns out your mother isn’t who you thought she was? Tha

Melissa Faliveno | Tomboyland | A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell

Zaina Arafat | You Exist Too Much | A provocative and seductive debut’ of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, relig