The Berry Pickers is an immersive and stunningly written debut novel by Amanda Peters. Every summer, a Mi’kmaq family travels from Nova Scotia to Maine to
Category Archives: Literary Fiction
The Story of Us by Catherine Hernandez
The Story of Us is a stunning and emotional story told from the unique viewpoint of a newborn baby. Mary Grace “MG” Concepcion left her husband in
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
The Crane Husband is a brilliant and lyrical retelling of The Crane Wife. An unnamed fifteen-year-old girl lives with her mother and younger brother on the r…
Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly
Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly is a stunning genderqueer book that follows one woman as she grapples with her gender identity. Dawn Levit, an aspiring
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane (they/them) is an incisive portrayal of one family trying to survive the clutches of a government that reset…
A History of Fear by Luke Dumas
A History of Fear reveals one man’s descent into madness. Scotland, 2017: Grayson Hale, an American grad student, callously murdered his classmate, blaming
Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom
Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom takes a sharp look at the dark side of social media. While Anna waits to go under the knife to reverse all of her past cosmetic
The Bequest by Joanna Margaret
The Bequest is an atmospheric dark academia thriller, but it will not appeal to everyone. Isabel Henley just arrived in Scotland to begin her Ph.D. under the…
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout returns with her sparse but beautiful prose in Lucy by the Sea, book four in the Amgash series. It’s the early days of 2020 when COVID-19 was
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta truly is an odyssey of one trans woman’s life as she transitions from being incarcerated to being released.