Tag: Literary Fiction
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Our Best Intentions
A suspenseful drama about an immigrant family caught in a criminal investigation.
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Wandering Souls
A haunting, gut-wrenching debut novel that paints a tender portrait of three Vietnamese child-refugees and their journey of hope, grief, and survival.
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Notes on an Execution
A gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life.
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Night Wherever We Go
A debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners.
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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
A Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.
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My Name is Lucy Barton
A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter, despite their complicated past.
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Please Report Your Bug Here
A debut novel by Instagram’s first employee about a dating app employee who discovers a glitch that transports him to other worlds.
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Treacle Walker
A fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity time, vivid storytelling that illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him.
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Factory Girls
A young woman, awaiting her exam scores, works a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls.
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Good Neighbors
Celeste Ng’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this propulsive literary noir, when a sudden tragedy exposes the depths of deception and damage in a Long Island suburb—pitting neighbor against neighbor and putting one family in terrible danger.
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