Tag Archives: Family Life
Conviction
by Elizabeth WinthropThe story of a young, American woman’s misguided journey to join ISIS and the grief of the mother she leaves behind—a gripping and thought-provoking…
A Private Man
by Stephanie Sy-QuiaA debut novel inspired by the true story of the author’s grandparents, tracing the slow-burn love story between a Catholic priest and a progressive…
The Animal Room
by Lauren AcamporaFrom the award-winning author of The Wonder Garden comes a set of linked stories spotlighting human-animal relations—and revealing the tensions that threaten to fracture a suburban…
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
by Rabih AlameddineWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION “Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination.”—NPR From National Book Award finalist and winner of…
Crown
by Evanthia BromileyA suspenseful, lyrical debut novel tracking three days leading up to the eviction of a pregnant single mother and her nine-year-old twins from a…
The Son of Man
by Jean-Baptiste Del AmoFrom the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia (Sunday Times), winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Best Translated…
Blue Light Hours
by Bruna Dantas Lobato“Astonishingly beautiful . . . It’s a revelation.”—Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Weather From the National Book Award-winning translator, an atmospheric and wise debut…
City of Laughter
by Temim FruchterA rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a…
Brother Alive
by Zain KhalidFrom the winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, an astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following three adopted brothers who live above a mosque in Staten Island with their imam…
Ocean State
by Stewart O'NanSet in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do
