A grief-stricken private detective, haunted by his brother's wife's suicide, goes into San Francisco's underworld to find the fabled Queen of Prostitutes, blurring the lines between loss, desire, and the city's hidden depravities.
In the rugged Maritime landscape, families contend with loss and the sea's relentless pull, showing the deep rifts and lasting ties that define their lives.
In 1934 Harlem, twelve-year-old Francie Coffin navigates a world of dashed hopes and resilient dreams, where the daily numbers game offers a false promise of escape from the Great Depression.
On her twenty-fifth birthday in 1883 Fermanagh, Beth Winters, caught between her stepfather's cruelty and a charismatic rogue, races against a family curse to escape a life of pain and betrayal before it consumes her.
On a rain-slicked Iranian night, a retired Colonel confronts the devastating legacy of a revolution devouring its own, forced to bury his tortured daughter while grappling with the ghosts of his nation's past and the shattered ideals of his children.
On a summer afternoon, a woman's life with her former teacher changes when two mischievous tengu from her childhood suddenly reappear, blurring the lines between memory and reality.
A mother's radical past clashes with her daughter's enigmatic act of self-starvation outside the American embassy in Dublin, forcing a harrowing descent into maternal love, faith, and Ireland's history.
On a bus across Europe, a middle-aged English professor dissects the wreckage of his marriage, fatherhood, and a searing affair with a sharp, cynical wit that cuts as deeply into himself as it does into the women he obsesses over.
Naipaul's 'The Middle Passage' explores post-colonial Caribbean societies, showing how slavery and Empire still shape identity, politics, and daily life as British rule ends.
Through diverse voices and forms, "I Hotel" explores the Yellow Power Movement in San Francisco's Chinatown, tracing a decade of student unrest, revolutionary spirit, and the fight to save a historic hotel that became central to Asian American identity in the late 1960s and early 70s.
After a Christmas Eve fall introduces him to an unconventional woman, a jaded plastic surgeon finds his meticulously constructed Manhattan life, and his understanding of love and feminism, radically upended.
After his son's brave but losing fight with bone cancer, a grieving father finds comfort and understanding in mystical experiences that show the strength of the human spirit.
After a string of unfaithful boyfriends, a cynical Marissa creates a website to expose serial cheaters, only to bring back her first love, who wants to prove not all men give in to temptation.
In Tor Ulven's "Replacement," fifteen different lives come together in a single, haunting story, where each character's inner world contrasts with their unchanging outer reality.
Schuyler and Jack race to unlock an ancient Egyptian gate to avert a deadly blood trial, while Mimi descends into Hell, forcing both pairs of lovers to confront sacrifices and a brewing war in the Kingdom of the Dead.
