FICTION

Daisy is a 1990s spin on the classic Roaring Twenties Great Gatsby character Daisy, as she navigates the stormy waters of high school, forbidden love affairs, and the challenges of girlhood.

This debut story collection from Michigan author and journalist John Counts portrays desperate characters in desperate circumstances unique to the rural Midwest.

Elita takes us on the mysterious mission of a scholar of child development who journeys to a remote island in hopes of solving the case of Atalanta, a silent, wild girl living in the woods near a penitentiary. 

A powerful debut novel about war, immigration, and home

Queer stories about love, loneliness, the surreal, and the self

Violence haunts 1915 Atlanta and so does the golem a group of girls creates

Inside Half Moon Bay, a sparkling California coastal town, Ester Prynn is dulled and diminished by struggles with work, money, marriage, her senile father, a troubled teenage son, and old guilt she can’t assuage. When a masked gunman robs the convenience store where Ester works, he upends her fraught life and propels her toward passions buried, like singing; desires discovered, like a same-sex infatuation; and wrongs righted, like bringing the violent assailant to justice. But as the armed robber commits new crimes and continues to evade capture, the trauma from the holdup climbs, threatening Ester’s newfound delights and longings and forcing her to contend with her burning regrets and what-ifs. In the reckoning between Ester and these growing, molten upsets, she’s faced with enormous choices and must determine what and who can bring her to her best life.

A gorgeously wrought queer exploration of what it means to exist in the in-between

This novel is a parable for the twenty-first century, an allegory of the violence, racism, and international tensions between the United States and México.

 

Acclaimed fiction writer Ali Hosseini’s debut short-story collection in English explores Iran’s landscape, its culture, and the undercurrent of change affecting its people—both in Iran and the United States.