Set against the legacy of a notorious reform school, the novel follows characters who confront buried atrocities and the supernatural traces those abuses may have left behind.

Set in Victorian-era Britain, the novel follows characters entangled in theft, deception, and social constraint in London. The central pressure revolves around trust and betrayal among people on different rungs of the social ladder, where schemes and personal desires collide and reshape relationships.

A Jesuit-led mission makes contact with an alien civilization and returns with consequences that force survivors to reckon with faith, morality, and trauma. The novel frames its central pressure around human responses—religious, ethical, and personal—to an otherworldly meeting and the costs that follow.

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 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.

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 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.

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.