Set in a recent historical past, the story focuses on a coal-merchant and shopkeeper whose ordinary routines are interrupted when he encounters evidence of suffering connected to a local institution.

A formally inventive novel that stages an Asian American life through the language and beats of television scripts, focusing on how roles and stereotypes shape a character’s ambitions and relations.

An anonymous narrator, a North Vietnamese mole embedded in the South Vietnamese army, recounts life after the fall of Saigon while living among a South Vietnamese exile community in the United States.

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 a Midwestern town during the Depression era, the novel follows a young Black girl who internalizes local and cultural standards of beauty and longs for blue eyes as a way to be seen as lovable.

Several loosely connected characters across different eras encounter anomalies that call into question the nature of reality, time, and memory.

A short, focused novella that focuses on a strained father–child relationship set against motifs of dance, clothing, and sleepwalking. The narrative applies fantastical or uncanny touches to private family dynamics and rites, creating a blend of cultural detail and subtle horror without sprawling plot breadth.

An envoy from a small, independent station takes up a precarious diplomatic post inside a vast imperial court and must navigate unfamiliar rituals, institutional power, and a suspicious death tied to her predecessor.

Set in the mid-20th century American South, the novel follows Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer recovering from a physical accident while carrying a family's intergenerational wounds.

Two young people from different social backgrounds form a fraught, recurring relationship from secondary school into university.

A multigenerational family story tracking a Bengali couple who relocate to the United States and the next generation raised between two cultures.

A contemporary romance that follows Feyi Adekola, a Nigerian American visual artist, as she navigates life after the traumatic loss of her partner and opens — cautiously and imperfectly — to new love. The novel focuses on personal healing, creative work, and the delicate boundaries between grief and desire.