ALLEGRA GOODMAN’s Sam: A Novel is the story of a 7-year-old with a nearly absent father and a mother struggling to make ends meet. But all Sam wants to do is climb, hang from the highest limbs of the tallest trees, and scale the side of a building. In JESS ROW’s The New Earth: A Novel, a family reckons with the harms of the past and confronts an uncertain future. And in THRITY UMRIGAR’s The Museum of Failures: A Novel, when a young man returns to India to see his now elderly mother – still full of resentment toward her cold and inscrutable nature – he uncovers a shocking family secret that compels him to reevaluate his entire life.

Buy Sam: A Novel. – Goodman

Buy The New Earth: A Novel. – Row

Buy The Museum of Failures: A Novel. – Umrigar