A tightly focused, first-person account centered on a Black working-class family in Mississippi as they prepare for and endure Hurricane Katrina.

A multi-generational family saga tracing the legacies of slavery and migration across several branches of one extended lineage. Each short chapter follows a descendant in a different time and place, showing how historical violence and displacement shape personal lives across generations.

A multigenerational family saga that traces a Greek-American family's migration, domestic life, and inherited biology which shapes one child's unusual development.

Set in the Chicken Hill neighborhood of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, during the 1920s and 1930s, the novel follows the intersecting lives of Black and Jewish residents centered around a neighborhood grocery.

Presented through a collage of documents, memoir excerpts, and alternate accounts, the novel orients on a secretive, immensely wealthy financier and the contested stories about him and his wife.

A Philadelphia patrol officer working in a struggling neighborhood pursues a string of murders while also searching for her own missing sister.

Mackenzie, a Cree woman, copes with the aftermath of family deaths while her nightmares begin to leave physical traces in waking life.

A contemporary coming-of-age romance about a Black woman navigating life after a major relationship and the pressures of adulthood. The novel follows her emotional recovery, shifting priorities, and evolving sense of self as she confronts family expectations, professional identity, and new romantic possibilities.

Set against the realities of a mid-20th-century reform school in the American South, the novel follows young boys who confront daily physical and moral violence inside a state institution.

A contemporary, character-focused novel centered on characters navigating fraught private relationships and ethical pressure in an American setting. The narrative opens from intimate vantage points and builds tension through choices, secrets, and the slow widening of consequences rather than by external action.

Light stages several linked strands: high-tech spacefaring and scientific work, characters wrestling with gender and identity, and a persistent thread involving serial violence. The novel frames these pressures against questions about consciousness, causality, and human meaning across near-future and cosmic contexts.