Set around wartime conflict in Ethiopia, the book follows characters caught up in the pressures of invasion and resistance. Its central orientation is toward people’s inner responses to violence and the ways ordinary lives and loyalties are tested by war.

Set in the Arctic and rooted in Inuit experience, the novel follows an individual and their community as they face personal and collective pressures tied to survival, spiritual practice, and contact with outsiders.

A retelling of Greek myth that reimagines the life of the witch Circe from her own point of view. The narrative follows her development from an outsider of the immortal world into a solitary figure who practices magic, encounters famous mythic figures, and negotiates relationships with gods and mortals.

A fictional reimagining of a doomed overland expedition in the 19th-century American West that places characters under escalating scarcity and suspicion.

Set in a past colonial-era city, the novel follows a woman trained in law who is hired to sort out a will and guardianship matter involving three widows.

A formally experimental novel that focuses on Abraham Lincoln’s grief after the death of his young son and locates most of the action in the bardo — an in-between realm between life and rebirth.

Across the 20th century, a Korean family lives and works in Japan, confronting social exclusion, economic precarity, and the burdens of cultural displacement.

An aging and famous former movie star commissions a single, final interview with a relatively unknown journalist, using that conversation to recount her life and relationships.

A newly placed woman at a secluded country house confronts eerie, inexplicable phenomena tied to the home’s past while she navigates grief, social scrutiny, and household secrets. The book sets up a slow-building collision between domestic routine and uncanny intrusions that heighten psychological strain.