In these unsettling stories by the young British writer Sarah Hall, fantasy encroaches on the concrete zone of real life, overturning expectation, and exciting the imagination.
Silber's skillful novel weaves together the lives and voices of a young single mother in New York, her reckless boyfriend, and her characterful, well-traveled aunt.
This provocative collection of modern fables of feminine identity and desire, by the late British novelist and essayist Jenny Diski, comes to American readers for the first time.
In Clemmons' thoughtful debut novel, a young woman with South African and North American roots struggles with her identity and an unplanned pregnancy while wrestling with her mother's death.
The novelist presents her first collection of short stories, glittering gems in which female identity and the supernatural blend and blur, eerily distorting everyday perception.
Sexton deftly layers the struggles of three generations of a middle-class black family in New Orleans to deflect the buffets of adversity, racism and weather—and to endure.
A brainy thriller for the internet age, about a detached, daring, underprotected teenage girl who narrowly escapes sex slavery by a band of tech-savvy Dadaist art obsessives.
Ward's third novel takes the reader on a haunting, heartbreaking road trip through the American South, with a family fractured by racism, addiction and prison, but bound to each other through love.
In this sweeping epic of immigration, bias and belonging, four generations of a Korean immigrant family struggle to carve out a place for themselves in 20th-century Japan.
Liesl Schillinger is the author of Wordbirds and translator of The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas fils, and other works of fiction.
Published 11/21/2017
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