BOOKLOVES

A resonant collection of stories that channels the longings and discontents of the slow drift toward adulthood in suburban New Jersey “What possible fuckup could I have committed that would have given away my parents’ impending divorce?” Tweens, teenagers, young adults, and moody combinations of the three fill these pages. Nights are spent sitting beside […]

Some books grab you with plot twists. Others quietly settle in, pour you a cup of chamomile tea, and refuse to let you leave until you have cried at someone else’s kitchen table. The Daisy Chain Flower Shop by Laurie Gilmore is firmly the second kind. It is the sixth and final book in Gilmore’s […]

A deeply intimate novel—a devastating portrait of love, memory, family implosion, and all the good and bad we inherit “Cycling is what I did. Part of my DNA. For years it was Becks and me together pedalling all over the land by the pond. Exploring fields down to Church Crookham, finding shacks and building sites. […]

A tantalizing Nigerian-flavored collection that baffles and entices with its inventive blending of the fantastical and the everyday The stories comprising In Wonder, Your People, aside from some recurring names and locations, have little in common with each other. However, one element consistently emerges: a wistfulness often stemming from regret—not from characters wallowing in it […]

Some books arrive like a slow tide. Others crash on you in one wave. Our Perfect Storm does both, which feels right for a novel set on the wild edge of Vancouver Island, where the weather flips in seconds and the trees are old enough to outlast any heartbreak. This is Carley Fortune’s fifth full-length […]