Sarah Adler’s rom-com pairs a sunshiney optimist with a grumpy writer on a chaotic drive from Washington, D.C. to Key West, with three spoonfuls of an elderly friend’s ashes tucked in a backpack. It sounds zany, yet the humor is wrapped around […]
Laura Pearson’s The Last List of Mabel Beaumont is a deeply touching and life-affirming novel about grief, friendship, and second chances. Beautifully written and brimming with quiet wisdom, it’s the kind of story that slips gently into your heart and lingers long […]
Ling Ling Huang’s Natural Beauty is a haunting, provocative debut that blends horror, satire, and social commentary into a dark reflection of our beauty-obsessed culture. With an atmosphere that is both luxurious and grotesque, this novel exposes the monstrous side of perfectionism […]
Book Review: Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki – A Luminous Blend of Music, Magic, and Humanity
Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars is a novel that defies categorization. It’s part science fiction, part fantasy, part contemporary drama and entirely original. It’s a story about a violin teacher who owes her soul to the devil, a runaway transgender prodigy […]
Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s The Sisters is a big, generous novel that aims for the whole constellation of a life: family, diaspora, art, love, ambition, and the curse of loss that seems to hover over every generation. Told across three decades and structured […]
Francine Oomen returns to the world that raised a generation with a new entry aimed at those former teens who are now juggling rent, relationships, and the quiet panic of adulthood. Hoe overleef ik alles wat ik niemand vertel? promises a grown […]
Fatma Aydemir’s Dschinns is an extraordinary family saga that bridges continents, generations, and ghosts both literal and metaphorical. Set between Germany and Turkey in the late 1990s, it’s a sweeping, multi-voiced novel about migration, identity, grief, and the silent hauntings that shape […]
Madeleine Gray’s Green Dot is a small, sharp novel about the dizzying confusion of being twenty four, the hunger that masquerades as desire, and the thin moral lines we cross when longing feels like survival. At the center is Hera, a restless, […]
In Clear, Carys Davies crafts a hauntingly beautiful story set against the stark, wind-lashed backdrop of 1843 Scotland. With her signature precision and poetic restraint, she captures the loneliness of the human soul and the fragile threads of connection that can bridge […]
Yasmin Zaher’s debut, The Coin, is a razor-edged portrait of a young Palestinian woman trying to reinvent herself in New York City while her body, memory, and politics keep tugging her back to the past. Part immigrant tale, part psychological spiral, part […]