Sonia and Sunny are two lonely young people from India living on opposite sides of the Atlantic—Sonia a homesick college student in Vermont, Sunny a journalist trying to find his place in Brooklyn. Each wrestles with identity, desire, and dislocation while their extended families, back in India, try to shape their futures. The novel follows their separate journeys and the family ties, cultural expectations, and personal choices that bring them into uneasy contact.

Set in the early days of Montana statehood, the novel follows Good Stab, a Blackfeet man whose unnaturally long life is revealed through a series of confessional interviews. The discovery of a century-old diary unearths a suppressed massacre and the long, haunted search for justice that follows. A spare, historical revenge tale told in vivid period voices.

Stag Dance is a collection of one novella and three stories that probe gender, desire, and community. The title novella follows a crew of winter loggers who plan a dance where some will present as women, setting off a rivalry and emotional upheaval that reframes identity and relationships. The three linked stories—imagining a gender-triggered upheaval, a tense boarding-school romance, and a Las Vegas weekend between a young crossdresser and two contrasting guides—explore transition, power, and longing with sharp humor and emotional intensity.

István, a shy teenager in Hungary, becomes increasingly isolated after a formative incident and drifts away from his family and classmates. The novel follows intimate episodes across decades as he is shaped by encounters with strangers, unresolved trauma, and the pressures of modern life, tracing his uneasy passage into adulthood and the lasting effects of loss.

At a Manhattan lunch, an accomplished actress rehearsing for a new production meets a younger, mysterious man. Told through two competing perspectives, the novel quietly investigates identity, the roles we play—partner, parent, creator, muse—and how performances can conceal private truths.

In her senior year, Jordan is drawn into the intoxicating world of two charismatic classmates, Sam and Yash, and becomes entangled in a charged triangle of friendship, desire, and ambition. Decades later, a surprise visit forces her to confront the choices and deceptions of her youth and reckon with how those decisions shaped her life. A spare, character-driven novel about love, loyalty, and the long reach of the past.

Sixty-three-year-old Raja, a beloved high-school philosophy teacher known in his Beirut neighborhood as a gay man, shares a tiny apartment with his insistent octogenarian mother, Zalfa. Craving solitude after a string of personal and national upheavals, he accepts a writing residency in America, only to find himself revisiting the very events he hoped to escape. Told in Raja’s witty voice and spanning six decades, the novel follows his mistakes, losses, and gradual self-discovery while exploring family, identity, and the possibility of forgiveness.

Winifred Notty takes a position as a Victorian governess at the gloomy Ensor House, where the household’s eccentricities and her own troubled past begin to unsettle her. As she cares for the children and navigates the family’s secrets, her dark imagination and compulsions start to blur the line between fantasy and reality, leading to a tense and unsettling climax around Christmas.

Set between 2014 and a flooded near-future, the novel centers on a mysterious poem read at a dinner and a lone scholar, Thomas Metcalfe, who becomes obsessed with finding it. His search through archives and lives unearths love, loss and a violent secret, as the book probes how we piece together the past and what can truly be known across time.

Roman Carruthers returns to his Virginia hometown after his father is badly injured and discovers his family is in deeper trouble than he expected: a brother owing dangerous money to criminals and a sister determined to uncover the mystery of their mother’s disappearance years earlier. Using his financial skills and ruthless determination, Roman must confront old secrets and new threats to protect his family before everything unravels.

After losing her job and facing family pressure, Zelu writes an experimental science-fiction novel about androids and AI in a post‑human world. As her book takes on a life of its own, the boundaries between her fiction and her reality begin to blur, forcing her to reckon with love, loss, and the power of stories.

Tongues is a graphic-novel retelling of the Prometheus myth set in a version of modern Central Asia. It follows the captive god, his fraught relationship with the eagle that torments him, and his pursuit of revenge, while interweaving the stories of an East African orphan on an errand of violence and a drifting young man carrying a teddy bear. The book reimagines ancient myth through contemporary characters and themes of suffering, connection, and consequence.

Three linked stories across 1532, 1827, and 2019 follow María, Charlotte, and Alice as hunger, longing, and rage push them into desperate choices. Weaving historical and contemporary threads, the novel examines desire, freedom, and the cost of survival without revealing key twists.

On the day of the fiftieth Hunger Games — a special Quarter Quell — Haymitch Abernathy is taken from District 12 alongside three other tributes. Torn from his family and the girl he loves, he must survive an arena designed to break him, and his choices in the Games threaten to reach far beyond his own fate.

Lina and her father arrive at The Sea, a liminal enclave between migrations, where time and eras seem to meet. There she befriends neighbors from different periods—a Jewish scholar in 17th‑century Amsterdam, a philosopher fleeing 1930s Germany, and a Tang dynasty poet—whose conversations and teachings help Lina face revelations about her family’s past. The novel moves across centuries to explore migration, memory, guilt, responsibility, and the search for home.

In a near-future world where dreams are monitored, Sara is detained by a government agency after an algorithm predicts she will harm the person she loves. Held in a retention center with other women whose dreams are used as evidence, she faces shifting rules and prolonged confinement. A new arrival unsettles the facility’s order and sets Sara on a path that forces her to confront the surveillance systems controlling her life.

Annie, nine months pregnant, is at IKEA when a major earthquake devastates Portland. Cut off from her husband and without phone or money, she must cross the chaotic city on foot. Along the way she encounters danger, compassion, and an unlikely ally, while confronting fears about her marriage, career, and impending motherhood as she tries to reach safety.

Dominic Salt and his three children care for Shearwater, a remote island that shelters the world’s largest seed bank. When a stranger washes ashore during a violent storm, her arrival forces the family to confront isolation, hidden secrets, and urgent choices about protecting the seeds and one another as the climate closes in. An atmospheric story about survival, trust, and family.

On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle is a literary/speculative series about Tara Selter, a woman who becomes unstuck from normal time and finds herself reliving November 18 over and over. Rather than treating that premise like a puzzle or thriller, the books use it to explore time, routine, loneliness, perception, and what it means to keep living when the world no longer moves forward in the usual way. It’s quiet, philosophical, strange, and more meditative than action-heavy.

In near-future Kolkata, Ma, her toddler, and her elderly father are days from leaving for the U.S. when their visas are stolen. Told over one week, the novel alternates between Ma’s frantic search amid a worsening food shortage and the thief Boomba’s perspective, showing how his attempts to provide for his family spiral into escalating crimes. It’s a tense, character-driven portrait of two families confronting scarcity and the difficult choices they make to protect their children.

The Wilderness follows five Black women over twenty years as they navigate the uncertain period between young adulthood and midlife. Sisters Desiree and Danielle are estranged, January is ambivalent about a relationship after a surprise pregnancy, Monique is a librarian who gains online attention after confronting her university, and Nakia tries to launch a restaurant without relying on her family. Set from the late 2000s into the late 2020s, the novel examines friendship, family, and home amid political, economic, and environmental instability.

After a summer night on a breakwater, ten-year-old Louisa is found near‑death and her father, Serk, has vanished. The novel follows Louisa and her mother Anne as they cope with his absence, unravel family secrets tied to Serk’s Korean‑Japanese past and Anne’s strained American roots, and confront the unsettling return of Tobias, Anne’s previously unknown son. Told in shifting perspectives across decades and countries, Flashlight explores memory, identity, and how a single mysterious event reshapes a family.

Set in 1932, Shadow Ticket follows Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private investigator hired to find a runaway heiress. What begins as a routine missing-person case becomes an international, often comic, odyssey—across an ocean and into Europe—dragging Hicks into political intrigue, criminal elements, swing‑era nightlife and eccentric characters as he tries to find the woman and make his way back home.

Brother Diaz arrives at the Sacred City expecting praise, but is instead put in charge of a dangerous flock of killers, dark sorcerers and monsters. Sent on a brutal mission that will force ruthless choices, he must navigate corrupt princes, hostile forces at the borders, and a hellish journey where unlikely, unholy allies could be his only chance.

On Black Sunday, a massive dust storm descends on the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. The story follows a group of residents—a “Prairie Witch” whose body stores other people’s memories, a Polish wheat farmer, his orphan niece who is a basketball player and witch’s apprentice, a talkative scarecrow, and a New Deal photographer with a time-traveling camera—as their secrets, losses, and the town’s past come to light. The novel blends folklore and magical realism with the harsh realities of the Dust Bowl and its human and environmental toll.