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 non-linear narrative pieces together the life and unexpected death of Vivek Oji, tracing childhood, family relationships, and the tensions around identity within a Nigerian setting.

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.

An adult soldier who was taken as a child from a colonized land serves in the empire's army and must navigate divided loyalties when ordered back to their homeland. The central pressure is the clash between duty to an occupying power and ties to a suppressed culture that practices outlawed religion and magic.

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.

Set in British-ruled Kolkata, the novel focuses on a detective-style investigation that unfolds within the political and social complexities of colonial India. A central inquiry—criminal in nature—pressures characters to confront local power structures, cultural differences, and the legal realities of the period.

A linked ensemble novel that follows multiple Native American characters living in and around Oakland who converge around a community powwow.

Set aboard a generation ship, the novel follows life inside a rigidly stratified vessel where social caste, inherited servitude, and systemic racism govern daily existence.

A group of men from the Blackfeet Nation are haunted years after a hunting incident in which a pregnant elk was killed. The book follows multiple perspectives as the consequences of that event — supernatural and social — return to demand reckoning.

In Lagos, a practical older sister wrestles with protecting her younger, more glamorous sister after the younger woman repeatedly kills romantic partners. The central pressure is the older sister’s daily management of evidence, social optics, and her own conflicted devotion while fearing discovery and moral compromise.

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.

A small collective of guerilla gardeners called Birnam Wood accepts backing from a charismatic tech billionaire to undertake a project on neglected farmland.