In We Know You Know by David W. Tilley, Professor Titus Frost’s life was turned upside down on an October morning in 1975. Titus was standing in front of the burned remains of his home in North Georgia. The fire destroyed everything Titus and his...

In Christopher Renna’s The Life & Death of Mason Donovan, bestselling novelist James Ryan is invited to write the biography of Mason Donovan, an award-winning Hollywood actor whose death during a sailing trip has left many questions unanswered. Raised in Kansas, Mason becomes a successful...

In Abraham Randall’s Take Me With You, a waiter who runs the floor at a breakfast restaurant at O’Hare posts a photo of a dying plant. A stranger in Bogotá corrects him. It is a Monstera deliciosa, not a philodendron. What follows is months of...

Once Upon a Mall by Alexander L. George is a coming-of-age novel that takes you back to when everyone went to the local shopping mall to gather, eat, and be entertained, before the internet and cell phones. William Saint, nostalgic for the past, visits the...

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is face a past you've spent years trying to forget. In Nomad by Cynthia Johnstone, Corey Collins has spent the last decade living alone on twenty-seven acres of land near Sedona, Arizona. At eighteen, she left Phoenix after a...

Unburdened Fulfillment by Manju Mohapatra follows Uma, a widow who lost her husband to COVID-19. As she copes with her grief, she starts to rebuild a family from people whom the world abandoned. Uma takes in a cousin’s widow and son, raises a child orphaned...

M. A. Coupe’s The Cyclist: Carbon Fingerprints follows Alex, a gifted Chicago cyclist riding the Trans-Britain Ultra, an arduous charity race across Britain. An old injury has left Alex with nerve damage that can interrupt an otherwise exceptional performance, yet racing remains the one place...

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 A Bitten Plant by Liz Fyne, 29-year-old Camille Baker watches her entire world unravel almost immediately after arriving in a new metropolis. She leaves Montana for the big city and lands a job at Farms Al Fresco, an advanced indoor farming facility. Her new...

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...