Month: May 2025

Funmi Fetto’s Hail Mary – Stories arrives as a fierce, necessary voice in contemporary literary fiction, mapping the emotional cartography of Nigerian womanhood with a clarity that stings and heals. In these ten interconnected but independent stories, Fetto refuses any neat resolution. Instead, she immerses readers into the inner and outer lives of women standing […]

In Andres Felipe Solano’s evocative novel Gloria, time doesn’t flow chronologically but rather pulses in waves of memory, carrying readers through five decades and across continents as a mother and son navigate lives connected by a shared city but separated by years. This is not simply a linear narrative but an impressionistic portrait of a […]

Heather McGowan’s Friends of the Museum is a dense, clever, and emotionally rich novel that captures the beautiful chaos of institutional failure. Set within a prestigious New York City museum on the brink of reinvention—or collapse—it follows a cast of characters whose personal and professional lives unravel over a single day. With sharp humor and […]

Melissa Arnot Reid’s debut memoir “Enough” offers readers something rare in mountaineering literature – a journey that extends far beyond the physical challenge of scaling Earth’s highest peaks. While the memoir certainly delivers breathtaking accounts of high-altitude climbing, its true elevation comes from Reid’s unflinching examination of her interior landscape. Here, she maps the treacherous […]

Julie Mae Cohen’s “Eat, Slay, Love” delivers a deliciously dark comedy thriller that combines the catharsis of female revenge with genuine emotional depth. Following her success with “Bad Men: A Novel,” Cohen has crafted a story that’s equal parts empowering female friendship narrative and wickedly entertaining romp through murder, deception, and the discovery of one’s […]

Ana Huang returns with King of Envy, the emotionally charged fifth entry in her Kings of Sin series, and perhaps her most psychologically intimate installment yet. This is not merely a romance—it’s a slow-burning tempest of obsession, trauma, and redemption wrapped in dark silk. While each book in the Kings of Sin saga can be […]

In King of Wrath, Ana Huang crafts a billionaire romance that leans less on clichés and more on character complexity. This isn’t your typical enemies-to-lovers or marriage-of-convenience trope; instead, Huang offers a refined yet emotionally intricate story about two people whose lives are dictated by legacy, image, and carefully buried wounds. As the first book […]