A fictional first-person memoir presenting the life and travels of Estebanico (Mustafa ibn Muhammad ibn Abdussalam al-Zamori), a Moroccan enslaved man who survives the Narváez expedition and recounts his experience in the New World.

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

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.

Set across decades around an attempted assassination of a major reggae figure, the novel tracks how that act ripples through Kingston and New York over years of changing politics, gangs, and drug economies.

Set in late-19th-century New York, the story follows two supernatural outsiders—a golem created in Europe and a jinni liberated at sea—each stranded in a city they do not understand. Both must learn to hide their natures, adopt human customs, and find ways to meet emotional needs that differ from those around them.

Set in the violent 1850s, the novel follows Henry Shackleford, a young enslaved boy who becomes involved with abolitionist John Brown.

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.

Set in 1893 Victorian England, the novel follows Cora Seaborne, newly widowed and pivoting toward amateur natural history, who leaves London for an Essex village where reports of a mythic sea-serpent unsettle the community.