High as the Waters Rise, Anja Kampmann
German poet Anja Kampmann’s award-winning debut novel is the dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Contemporary
Spotlight – Glendy Vanderah
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to … Continue reading →
Cormorant Lake, Faith Merino
At once fantastical and deeply rooted in the natural world, Faith Merino’s deeply affecting and spirited debut novel explores the … Continue reading →
Infinite Country, Patricia Engel
Infinite Country is a multi generational family saga about a Colombian family with mixed citizenship status. The story is told … Continue reading →
Good Neighbors, Sarah Langan
Climate change is wreaking havoc, adding its own sinister atmosphere to Maple Street, when a huge toxic sinkhole opens up … Continue reading →
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of … Continue reading →
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan
In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three children would just allow … Continue reading →
How Beautiful We Were, Imbolo Mbue
“We should have known the end was near.” So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set … Continue reading →
Red Island House, Andrea Lee
A sweeping novel about marriage and loyalty, identity and heritage, fate and freedom, Red Island House reintroduces readers to a … Continue reading →
The Road to Vermilion Lake, Vic Cavalli
The novel tells the story of . . . Thomas Neal Tems, a blaster’s assistant and first-aid attendant who lives … Continue reading →