The Grove (2025) Brooks Whitney Phillips "An aching, gorgeous story about figuring out your own dreams while in the shadow of a conventionally beautiful older sister. I loved The Grove, and the voices of Pip and Sissy will stay with me for a long time."
White Mulberry (2024) Rosa Kwon Easton "A tautly paced novel that has something for everyone...[Miyoung's] epic journey to live life on her own terms will keep you at the edge of your seat. An impressive debut."
What We Kept to Ourselves (2023) Nancy Jooyoun Kim "What We Kept to Ourselves is a nail-biting thriller with hairpin turns, a generational saga, a love story, an unsparing look at belonging and unbelonging in America today and the abject joys of food, family, forgiveness. I can't stop thinking about the Kim family. A glorious achievement!"
A Council of Dolls (2023) Mona Susan Power "A Council of Dolls reached out, grabbed me and did not let go. Power's ability to make language sing, cry, scream, and laugh illuminates this heartstopper of a book that shines a light into the dark corners of America's history. I wanted the generational journey I was taking with these unforgettable characters - and their dolls - to never end. Read it--and be healed."
Half-Life of a Stolen Sister (2023) Rachel Cantor "With humor and heart, Rachel Cantor paints a vivid, multi-voiced picture of the Brontes via a shape-shifting, time-bending tapestry of unforgettable characters and situations. Whether you're a fan of this literary family or not, this book is a must-read for anyone looking for a truly innovative, tender, and humorous take on genius, the creative process, family, and life."
You Are Here (2023) Karin Lin-Greenberg "A boy, a beauty, an elderly gardener, a failed PhD and an artist with scissors: where else could all of these characters meet but at the mall? In Karin Lin-Greenberg's clear-eyed and heartfelt You Are Here, the failing Greenways Mall makes community out of a group of characters so fractious and real, you feel like you're hanging out with them at the food court."
Skull Water (2023) Heinz Insu Fenkl "A magical, brutal novel that shines light into a little-known world of a modernizing Korea of 1970s with its vestiges of American occupation, along with the mysteries of ancestors and the hungry ghosts of worlds we cannot see."
Complicit (2022) Winnie M Li "Ingeniously constructed, traversing searing aspects of race, class, gender, COMPLICIT gallops to a surprise finish, toggling back and forth from present to past and back again without losing any of its propulsive momentum. A page-turning read that also makes you think."
Obie Is Man Enough (2021) Schuyler Bailar "Bailar writes with assurance and beauty... His story had me laughing, crying and cheering, sometimes all at once."
