“Porn gave me material to explore. I didn’t need to go out and research something. I was living it. The research was my life.”… read more

Starla Martin, the sardonic narrator of Amber Dawn’s second novel, Sodom Road Exit, is a twenty-something college dropout with a penchant for pricey art, designer clothes, and one-night stands…. read more

That Inevitable Victorian Thing is billed as a young adult book, but as is often the case with this category, older readers will also enjoy this inventive royal coming-of-age fairy tale… read more

The Lauras is many types of book: it is a road trip book, a coming-of-age tale, a mother-child story; it is full of ghosts and yearning and sacrifice and discovery…. read more

“I was thinking about all the very specific elements that make up the poor, rural heartland, and I really wanted to paint a full picture of something very uniquely American, these eccentric individuals who feel out of place in their own home”… read more

“I find that the way I define and feel happiness keeps changing. Going through the worst time of my life definitely lowered the bar, which is actually a good thing.”… read more

This memoir will resonate with anyone, regardless of age, who has loved and lost and survived… read more

Abandon Me is a fierce exploration of love and obsession… read more

The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories is achingly smart, sad, and weird in equal measure… read more

The slow, measured prose of these nine interrelated tales approaches big topics—loneliness, belonging, death, fear—and yet, Anne Raeff’s stories are intimate, character driven, and incredibly subtle… read more