This story of a Vietnamese immigrant growing up in the United States is constructed as a series of meditations on the lessons from great books that moved and instructed him.
Jenny Shank
Jenny Shank’s story collection Mixed Company won the Colorado Book Award and the George Garrett Prize, and her first novel, The Ringer, won the High Plains Book Award, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post and Image. She teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver.
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The border divides a family in Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s affecting memoir
Castillo writes with gorgeous precision and sensitivity about his experience as a boy growing into a man in a country that will not recognize him, his family split across borders.
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Review: ‘The Sacrament’ tells a searing story about abuse in the Catholic Church
The horrors of abuse remain offstage, barely spoken of, yet the entire book is haunted by them.
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Review: Reconstructing a lost youth
‘Body Leaping Backward’ is a melancholy, atmospheric memoir that reads as a sort of urgent confession.
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Review: What if Noah’s ark was told through his wife’s perspective?
Sarah Blake’s dream-like and intriguing first novel introduces us to the wife of Noah.
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R. O. Kwon’s debut novel delves into the loss of faith and the absence it leaves behind
R. O. Kwon’s novel startles and unsettles with its insights, as its characters act to prove their beliefs to themselves and to the world, with explosive results.
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A bold debut about Filipino life in America
A frank and immersive foray into the world of Filipino-American immigrants to the United States.
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Investigating Mystery: The Fictional Journeys of Kirstin Valdez Quade
While Kirstin Valdez Quade’s stories frequently feature Catholic characters, she says her relationship to the church “has always been a little bit complicated.”
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In Alice McDermott’s new Brooklyn novel, Sister knows best
Alice McDermott has once again delivered a novel to ponder and cherish, from its moral quandaries down to its wry humor and hypnotic prose.