Literature & Fiction

Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. “In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls / running up the wall.” The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist China and an eventual...

Ivy I've harbored a secret crush on Grant ever since that freckle-faced kid first set foot in our yard when I was just six years old. I knew he was special. Grant has always had this uncanny ability to understand...

God tested, Atheist approved. This is how Christians secretly view the Sodom and Gomorrah story. It's as disgusting as it is funny.

It's July of 1970. The decaying beach town of Asbury Park, New Jersey erupts with racial unrest that propels three unlikely teenage friends into turmoil. Adam, Mollie, and Howard struggle with family conflicts and their racial, cultural and class identities...

Her investigation uncovers a web of corruption that stretches all the way into Nuevo Laredo's infamous "Boys Town" and incriminates Seclusion's rich and powerful—including members of the church and law enforcement.

Are you truly open-minded? In “Others Know Only What I Care to Tell Them”, a reclusive child writer prodigy faces a midlife crisis when a young man in the produce aisle in Fairway recognizes who he is and begs him...