“If we look at some of the most celebrated or prolific story originators of all time, we find among them a surprising number of eccentric bachelors and unmarried women. People who travelled widely, made strange friends and lived unusual and transient lifestyles.” Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward will take you on a wild ride…
Category: Standalone
Behind Five Willows by June Hur
“You are, to me as well, the kind of soul one finds only once in a lifetime, and travels the next thousand searching for again—” As the dutiful second-eldest daughter of a poor family, society would have Haewon believe that her only hope of a decent life is to marry well. But during a time…
Hmong by Vicky Lyfoung
“Instead of a family tree…we Lyfoungs have a family forest! Over time, I found my place within this forest. I understood and accepted who I was and where I’d come from. But the journey to self-acceptance was rather bumpy…” Long oppressed, the Hmong struggle to preserve their traditions and way of life in a homeland…
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
“How to write a love poem for someone I hated so deeply, with every drop of my blood in my veins?How to do it so convincingly that even the Ancestors believed it?” In the waning years of the Azalea Dynasty, the emperor is dying, the land consumed by famine, and poetry magic lost to all…
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
“To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn’t care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet.” One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture which has occurred for Black, brown, indigenous Americans, as well as the…
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
“There is nothing in the world more difficult to refuse than self-righteous goodwill.” May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda….
Burn the Sea by Mona Tewari
“If you wanted me to be a bauble, you never should have given me a blade.” Abbakka Chowta never expected to be queen. The youngest of Ullal’s two rajkumaris, Abbakka has spent years in rigorous combat training to become her sister’s blade. But when the monstrous Porcugi attempt to lay claim to Ullal, Abbakka’s world―and…
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan
“I’m here to tell you the tide will never stop coming in.I’m here to tell you whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful.” A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries…
Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
“i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?” Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she’s always pursued the same deeply…
Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
“Some thoughts burrow into your mind as thoroughly as a wasp larva burrows into an unsuspecting caterpillar. The trick, which I am still learning, is how to live without being devoured by them.” The year is 1899 and Sonia Wilson is a scientific illustrator without work, prospects, or hope. When the reclusive Dr. Halder offers…
The Great Book Wyrm 