The Paisley family has problems with its fathers. And its mothers. The children have a […]
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here, by Esther Safran Foer
Esther Safran Foer’s family history, as related in I Want You to Know We’re Still […]
Hurricane Season, by Fernanda Melchor
Trigger warnings for physical and sexual abuse of children, and homophobic violence and language. I […]
Hex, by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Nell Barber wants two things and she can’t have either of them. The first thing […]
The Eighth Girl, by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung
Trigger warning for sexual abuse, rape, and suicidal ideation. Alexa Wú, the protagonist of Maxine […]
Eight Perfect Murders, by Peter Swanson
Like many things in literature, the definition of “perfect murder” is a little wobbly. It […]
Second Sister, by Chan Ho-Kei
Trigger warning for suicide. Chan Ho-Kei’s astonishingly good Second Sister (fluidly translated by Jeremy Tiang) […]
The Imperial Wife, by Irina Reyn
I supposed that most women will come off the worse when compared to Catherine the […]
The Words Between Us, by Erin Bartels
Robin has been in hiding since she was fifteen years old. When her father was […]
Thunder Bay, by Douglas Skelton
Trigger warning for domestic violence. The island where Douglas Skelton’s Thunder Bay is set is […]