Trigger warning for brief descriptions of state-sponsored terrorism, torture, and rape. Alexa Hagerty pours out […]
Weyward, by Emilia Hart
Trigger warning for domestic violence and rape. People have always looked at the Weyward women […]
A House with Good Bones, by T. Kingfisher
Going back to one’s childhood home after years away can be a strange experience. It’s […]
Once Upon a Tome, by Oliver Darkshire
I feel a lot of kinship with booksellers, being a librarian. We both have to […]
Endpapers, by Jennifer Savran Kelly
The further I get from my teenage years, the harder it is for me to […]
The Bandit Queens, by Parini Shroff
Trigger warnings for domestic violence, attempted rape, and references to rape. Geeta’s life is, paradoxically, […]
VenCo, by Cherie Dimaline
Lucky St. James is just trying to keep herself and her grandmother (who has dementia) […]
The Blue Window, by Suzanne Berne
Early in Suzanne Berne’s troubling family portrait, The Blue Window, Marika tells her daughter that […]
Ghost Music, by An Yu
Years ago, I read Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning; Frankl’s thesis has never left […]
Reunion of the Good Weather Suicide Cult, by Kyle McCord
Trigger warning for murder and mass suicide. Tom Duncan is not supposed to be alive. […]