In The Envelopes, Hasu August draws back the veil on modern Chinese life. Jade Bai begins her career in the city as a nurse, but later trains in personnel. She is married to Deeping Dai, who lectures at the local university, and they share an...

In Çağlar Bingöl’s Longing, we follow an Indigenous woman named Hehewuti and her grandson, Huka, through a series of very dramatic historical events. The backdrop is a cold, dangerous frontier where military raids fracture families. After her first home is destroyed by soldiers, young Hehewuti...

What if your entire life, with every regret, every triumph, every ordinary Tuesday, were already shelved in a library? In David Samuel Allen’s A Free Will Manifold, this question haunts Edom Thompson, a pure mathematician stuck on a proof he calls the “Die lemma,” when...

In Linda Annas Ferguson’s What the Mirrors Knew, Anna Grace O’Neill lives alone beside the Ashley River in Charleston after losing her husband and settling into a familiar life. When Grace finds a journal belonging to her Irish grandmother, Aine, an inscription from the grandfather...

Stephen Panus’s novel, The Circles We Carry, is a heart-wrenching and profoundly thoughtful story of a family’s unexpected, deep loss and their harrowing journey through grief in search of a way forward. Jesse Brennan is 17, a junior in Naperville High School in Illinois. He...

Still Yours is a gripping Gothic literary novella by bestselling author Jacob Anthony Rose. A fortnight before Valentine’s Day, Julian Mercer receives an unexpected package without a return address. Tucked beneath the packing slip is an envelope, and Julian recognizes the handwriting of his husband...

Sometimes the biggest life changes begin in the middle of an ordinary day. In You Must Believe in Spring by Steven Hutton, Evan and his girlfriend, Ellen, are trying to figure out their future after discovering that she is pregnant. The news wasn’t planned, and...

Irina Kvistberg’s Continuum follows Lea Voss, a researcher in the Biological Reserve, one of the few places left outside the smooth routines of an optimized future. When an unexplained perceptual event reaches Lea during synchronization, the System labels it harmless noise, yet sealed records connect...

Yance Wyatt’s The Watersmith centers on Jack Calloway, a handyman trying to stay sober while navigating one family heartbreak after another in the Tennessee Valley. He finds an old moonshine still his grandfather hid behind a lone cabin, and he and his rebellious teen son,...

The Foundling by Amy Meitz begins in 1978 Detroit, where nine-year-old Sunny Berry has spent years hidden inside a failing apartment. Her mother, Roxanne, insists the child she once loved has been replaced by something evil. Hungry and cut off from the outside world, Sunny...