Category: Fiction Books
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Review: Exit Party
A party in 2031 fractures reality across multiple universes. Exit Party explores parallel versions of ourselves.
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Review: Hollywood, Ending
Hollywood, Ending is a story about actors, fame, and the debts we carry toward people we love. Does success in the spotlight come at a cost?
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Review: Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt follows a modern-day Death who sits with the dying, and somehow makes grief feel like hope.
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Review: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 traces one woman’s ordinary life backward, from motherhood to decades of injustice in how society treats women.
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Review: The Birthing Tree
The Birthing Tree is about grief and the cost of a tradition the world decided to leave behind, told through generations of a Mi’kmaw family.
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Review: Under Story
Under Story braids together a mycologist who abandons her life, a reunion at the bottom of the world, and a theory about parallel universes.
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Review: Whistler
Daphne reunites with the stepfather she lost 45 years ago. A warm story of memory, second chances, and loving someone as their time runs out.
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Review: She Who Remains
To escape an arranged marriage, a young woman gives up her womanhood to live as a man. She Who Remains is heartbreaking and poetic.
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Review: The Calamity Club
The Calamity Club, a story of an orphaned girl, a bookkeeper, and a woman with secrets form an unlikely alliance during the Great Depression.
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Review: This Book Made Me Think of You
A widow receives a book each month, gifts her late husband arranged before he died. A story about grief, love, and learning to live again.
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Review: The Bright Years
The Bright Years looks like a sweet love story at first, but it hides addiction, secrets, and a family falling apart underneath.
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Review: On Earth as it is Beneath
On Earth As It Is Beneath is set in a Brazilian prison built on hidden bones, where inmates are hunted each month in a brutal survival ritual.
