Nan Steven Charnow’roman an, Charlie Fig and the Lip, the summer between high school and college is interrupted by the discovery of a bullet-riddled delivery van belonging to one of their fathers. Nina Romano’roman an, Langaj sekrè fanm yo, set during the Boxer Rebellion in China, depicts a romance between a young Chinese woman, and her Italian lover, fraught with complications imposed by societal constraints. In Thane Rosenbaum’pa How Sweet It Is!, two Holocaust survivors and their son relocate to Miami Beach after the war and learn lessons about their new home and themselves.