Speculative fiction has long been a temperature check for hot button issues both in America and abroad. Sci-fi, fantasy, and dystopian novels grasp at the anxieties of the day with an urgency that can only come from their unique structure. In his debut novel, Chain Gang All Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah imagines a future in… Continue reading Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Purchase a copy for yourself here! In the late 1980s—amidst a great deal of political turmoil in Nigeria—university students Yejide and Akin fall in love hard and fast. The modern and highly educated couple resolves not to partake in the traditional Nigerian practice of polygamy, where a husband acquires a series of wives who bear… Continue reading Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Home Making by Lee Matalone
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Home Making is the debut novel from Lee Matalone, whose fiction and essays have been featured in publications such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Denver Quarterly, and Tin House. The novel is a bite-sized (under 200 pages) narrative about the intersections between homemaking, family, and identity. Told… Continue reading Home Making by Lee Matalone
Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Sarah Elaine Smith’s debut novel, Marilou is Everywhere, is a less than glamorous coming-of-age story about what it means to be an outsider in one’s own body. The novel, set in a quiet town in southwestern Pennsylvania, is told from the perspective of fourteen-year-old Cindy Stoat. Cindy’s mother often… Continue reading Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith