FOUR MEMOIRS
In First Gen: A Memoir, ALEJANDRA CAMPOVERDI retraces her trajectory as a Mexican American woman raised by an immigrant single mother in Los Angeles with
CULTURAL EXPECTATIONS & COMPLICATED CHILDHOODS
In NIGAR ALAM‘s Under the Tamarind Tree: A Novel, it is 1964 in Karachi, Pakistan, and Rozeena is about to lose her home as the
GOTHIC MAGIC & DARK DESIRES
Set at a Victorian London circus, AMIEE GIBBS‘ The Carnivale of Curiosities: A Novel is a tale of Faustian bargains, jealousy, and murder, where for
ON EMPOWERED DEFIANCE
On Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education, Indian American human rights activist MALAINA KAPOOR and Afghani mathematician SOLA
ON HORRORS REAL & IMAGINED
In The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, TANANARIVE DUE’s second collection of short fiction, there are classic tales of horror, several stories set in a
ON IMMIGRATION & ENSLAVEMENT
The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America is SAKET SONI’s gripping account of migrant workers trapped in squalid
ON ESCAPES & BREAKING FREE
In DUNYA MIKHAIL’s The Bird Tattoo: A Novel, a young Yazidi woman’s life is changed forever when her husband, a journalist, goes missing, and her
MICROCOSMS OF HISTORY: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH FOUR DEBUT POETS
Fire Index: Poems by BETHANY BREITLAND measures the interior life of a survivor against the world she creates through her own fractured marriage, motherhood, and
FOUR AUTHORS ON SELF-EXPLORATION & IDENTITY
In SALAR ABDOH‘s A Nearby Country Called Love: A Novel, two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran that’s on the brink of
CROSSING BORDERS & EXPLORING DIASPORAS
The collection comprising JAMEL BRINKLEY‘s Witness: Stories are set in New York City and feature a range of characters – from children to grandmothers –