Partita tells the story of Livia Bohusz, a middle-aged piano teacher living in a rural community in Tennessee with her quiet husband, Charlie. The story moves between the present and the past, particularly the period when Livia met Sigurd at college at the age of twenty and the present, twenty-seven years later, when Sigurd gets […]
Rachel Griffin’s When the Woods Called Us Home is a gothic fantasy novel centred on Emma Pierce, a young arborist living in the isolated coastal town of Bone Creek, Washington, where forests, storms, and old family legends shape everyday life. The novel explores inherited trauma, family secrets, the relationship between humans and nature, and the […]
Alex is a comic, hyper-analytical campus novel about Willa, a young queer woman in her final year at a small liberal-arts college she calls “the fake place,” and her obsessive, mostly unreciprocated attachment to Alex Dean, a nonbinary student with blond curls, a gap between their teeth, a sexually adventurous reputation, and very little interest […]
Emerald Lake is a dual-timeline mystery and family saga set around a fictional Ontario lake, moving between the 1950s and the present day. It is narrated mainly by Jane Weber, an eighty-four-year-old widow dying of heart disease, and Officer Clair Mundy, a local police officer investigating human remains found in the swamp by Jane’s granddaughters. […]
The French Illusion is a kidnapping thriller built around an American honeymoon in Paris that turns into an international hostage crisis. The novel begins with one of its cleanest hooks: “The surveillance began on the third day of the honeymoon.” Paul Tanner and Chelsea Clayburn Tanner are attractive, privileged, newly married Americans visiting Paris after […]
I’m Hungry is a comic, restless, semi-autobiographical-feeling coming-of-age novel about a young part-Chippewa poet in Fargo in the mid-1970s. The protagonist begins as Julie, an aspiring poet, waitress, hustler, daughter, lover, survivor and observer; over the course of the book she increasingly calls herself Bazil, taking on the name of a male relative and making […]
This is is a queer love story framed as an act of literary correction. It opens with an interview transcript about a newly published book that claims to reveal the true story behind Ellis Williams, a famous musician, his legendary album Over and Over, and the woman everyone believed inspired it: Holland Smith. The interviewer […]
The novel covers a period of around twenty years and follows the Koh family across Seoul, Sydney, and Southern California, tracing their attempts to survive economic instability, social pressure, family sacrifice, and the relentless demands of education. John and Helen Koh are a Korean couple who have recently returned to Seoul after several years in […]
This is a novel-in-stories about Dean Singer, a middle-aged English teacher whose life is detonated when his wife Jane leaves him a long letter in his shoe on the night of their twentieth wedding anniversary. The letter forces him to reconsider the first night they met, the sex that led to her pregnancy, the abortion […]
Sandy Luu is a depressed, underemployed Vietnamese American woman in Los Angeles who joins a guided running app. She then becomes obsessed with the app’s handsome narrator and slowly turns self-improvement into stalking. The book wants to be a satire of wellness culture, parasocial intimacy, immigrant-family trauma, bad relationships, corporate misery and the strange way […]