A contemporary Black woman living in 1970s Los Angeles is repeatedly pulled back in time to a Maryland plantation in the early 19th century, where she encounters ancestors and must navigate slavery's social and moral realities to survive and return to her own time.

A nonlinear novel centered on fraternal twins whose childhood in a small Kerala town is shaped by family tensions, the arrival of an outsider cousin, and a social order marked by caste and colonial legacies.

A young Nigerian woman leaves Lagos to study in the United States and must navigate new social categories, racial visibility, and evolving relationships across continents.

Set in 1960s Nigeria around the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), the novel traces three principal lives—a village youth who becomes a houseboy, a university intellectual, and the intellectual's partner—whose personal relationships are reshaped by political upheaval.

A linked-memoir of personal essays in which the author recounts growing up Vietnamese American, arriving as a refugee, and navigating family, race, and literary ambitions.

Two twin sisters from the same small town take divergent paths—one remaining close to home, the other leaving and living under a different racial identity—and the novel follows how that split shapes their lives, their families, and the next generation across decades.

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

A literary fantasy that situates several women’s lives inside a shared historical and cultural landscape, using personal narratives and communal memory to trace how past events shape identity and responsibility.

Set in an imagined Antebellum United States, the novel follows Cora, an enslaved woman who flees a Georgia plantation via an Underground Railroad visualized as an actual subterranean railway.

An illicit kiss at a 1960s christening fractures two marriages and eventually results in a blended family. Over roughly fifty years the novel follows six children whose summers and lives intersect, tracing how one adult mistake reshapes relationships, loyalties, and personal trajectories across decades.

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.

Spanning several generations of a single family, the book traces how private lives, inherited memories, and supernatural intimations intersect with broader political upheaval. The central pressure comes from how family loyalties and personal histories respond to changing social orders and accumulating loss.