On the Day of the Dead in 1938, a British consul struggles with his estranged wife's attempt to win him back in Mexico, while he descends into his own self-destructive spiral.
Across generations, the Kashpaw and Lamartine families navigate love, betrayal, and the enduring spirit of their Ojibwe heritage on a North Dakota reservation.
Through the raw voices of Marines and officers, "Redeployment" explores the moral challenges of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, showing the brutal reality of combat and the isolating struggle of soldiers returning to a world that does not understand.
A young man, feeling separate from humanity, struggles to fit into post-war Japanese society, ultimately declaring himself 'disqualified from being human'.
When her husband leaves, a woman trapped in an apartment with two young children faces the terrifying loss of her identity and past, fighting to reclaim herself from abandonment.
An ambitious writer, without talent, betrays and steals stories across Europe and America, charming everyone on his way to literary fame, only to find the top a dangerous place.
In a desolate Mennonite town, a sharp-witted teenager navigates her family's ruins, piecing together the mystery of their disappearance with dark humor.
When a frail patriarch's broken ankle forces him into his devoted daughter's cramped home, the hidden weaknesses in a Bombay family's compassion, integrity, and faith are exposed.
In a city of conformity, George F. Babbitt, a prosperous realtor, grapples with the suffocating emptiness of his conventional life, yearning for an elusive authenticity beyond the Rotary Club and suburban sprawl.
In a world tilted on its axis by a stock market crash, Gwendolyn Meander, clad in frog pajamas, embarks on a surreal, spirit-guided quest through Seattle's underbelly to save a golden-voiced gorilla and reclaim her own lost wonder.
On a remote Finnish skerry, a feisty grandmother and her curious granddaughter navigate nature's whims and their evolving bond, finding a love as rugged as the island itself.
A young ensign grapples with duty, command, and the fine line between eccentric leadership and dangerous incompetence aboard a WWII minesweeper, culminating in a dramatic mutiny and a morally complex court-martial.
In an Oregon logging town, the Stamper family, led by a defiant father and his sons, fights a strike and their own destructive past, ending in a clash of wills and unexpected revenge.
A reclusive game designer, scarred by his past, creates a fantasy world that collides with reality when his players' real-life actions lead to tragedy, forcing him to confront the event that fractured his own existence.
In the fading industrial town of Thomaston, an aging optimist confronts his family's complex legacy and the ghosts of his past as he prepares for a life-altering trip and unravels the mysteries of his lifelong friendships.
In 90s Manhattan, a model's celebrity-obsessed life spirals into a nightmarish conspiracy of terror and mistaken identity, blurring the lines between fame, fashion, and deadly mayhem.
Trapped in a coffin and facing certain death, a seventeen-year-old girl named Christy Snow questions her existence, making readers doubt the nature of identity when reality is uncertain.
A voyeuristic boy, obsessed with the sea's purity, believes he finds cosmic order in his mother's affair with a sailor, only to be disillusioned by human emotion and domesticity.
In 1970s Brooklyn, a white boy and a Black boy form a friendship amidst racial tension and urban change, their lives shaped by music, identity, and a mysterious ring that grants flight.
A Hawaiian land baron, dealing with his thrill-seeking wife's impending death, goes on a darkly comedic journey with his rebellious daughters to find his wife's secret lover, forcing them to face their complicated past and an unexpected sense of freedom.
Thirteen-year-old Baby navigates the perilous, drug-addled streets of Montreal, clinging to doll-filled suitcases and her own vivid imagination, as she fends off a charismatic pimp and her neglectful father in a desperate search for belonging and self-preservation.
In a large, old house in Perth, two Australian families, the free-spirited Pickles and the God-fearing Lambs, live together for twenty years, sharing joy, sadness, and the everyday mess of life, forever connected by fate and the house itself.
In a snow-bound coastal town under occupation, the people, spurred by the execution of a townsman, wage a relentless, quiet war against their invaders, proving that freedom, once lost, cannot be extinguished, only reclaimed through an unyielding spirit.
On New Year's Eve, 1984, an 85-year-old former advertising executive walks across Manhattan, her journey reflecting a lifetime of personal triumphs, heartbreaks, and the city's changing history.
