A memoir of a childhood spent in unstable, often impoverished circumstances, told from the author's adult vantage. The account focuses on a family marked by vivid highs and dangerous lows: parental idealism and promises alongside episodes of neglect and homelessness.

Set chiefly in New Jersey with ties to the Dominican Republic, the novel follows Oscar de León — a lonely, pop-culture–obsessed young man — and his family across generations as they live under the shadow of a transatlantic curse linked to historical brutality.

A first-person narrator recalls growing up at an elite boarding school in an alternate late-20th-century England and the friendships and loyalties formed there while an institutional ethical situation quietly shapes their lives.

Light stages several linked strands: high-tech spacefaring and scientific work, characters wrestling with gender and identity, and a persistent thread involving serial violence. The novel frames these pressures against questions about consciousness, causality, and human meaning across near-future and cosmic contexts.

Set in the same universe as an earlier work by the author, this novel follows encounters with a mysterious, hazardous site called Nova Swing and the people drawn to it.

A member of a long-lived, blood-dependent species awakens with amnesia and physical injuries and must piece together who she is and how she relates to the human partners her kind depends on.

A hard-science space mission encounters an inexplicable extraterrestrial signal and assembles a specialized crew to investigate. The narrative orients around scientific inquiry into alien minds, neurologically informed speculation, and the practical hazards of human contact with a fundamentally other intelligence.