Either C.S. Lewis or William Nicholson said, “We read to know we are not alone.” […]
Treeborne, by Caleb Johnson
Caleb Johnson’s novel, Treeborne, is a deep dive into a family with serious skeletons in their […]
Half Gods, by Akil Kumarasamy
Akil Kumarasamy’s story collection, Half Gods, is, I think, a collection that requires a bit of […]
The Lost Family, by Jenna Blum
In The Lost Family, by Jenna Blum, I saw a family shaped by unspoken disappointment and […]
Invitation to a Bonfire, by Adrienne Celt
I have a special place in my heart for characters who are lonely enough to […]
Damnation Island, by Stacy Horn
It’s an old saw that the measure of a society is how they treat it’s […]
I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land, by Connie Willis
Connie Willis’ I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land is either a long short story […]
Paper Ghosts, by Julia Heaberlin
Grace has gone a lot farther to figure out what happened to her missing sister […]
Darwin’s Ghosts, by Ariel Dorfman
Late in Ariel Dorfman’s philosophical novel Darwin’s Ghosts, a professor asks the protagonist, “who is not […]
Final Girls, by Riley Sager
When true crime authors and buffs talk about the survivors of a killing spree, they […]