A contemporary father and husband faces an escalating crisis when ordinary family life collides with an inexplicable disappearance and supernatural forces. The book tracks how personal grief and a search for answers intersect with occult intrusion, putting domestic stability, identity, and safety under pressure.

Pepper is involuntarily confined in a budget-strapped psychiatric hospital in Queens and insists he is not mentally ill.

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 multi-generational family saga tracing the legacies of slavery and migration across several branches of one extended lineage. Each short chapter follows a descendant in a different time and place, showing how historical violence and displacement shape personal lives across generations.

A young woman from a Chinese-Malaysian community becomes involved in a ghost marriage ritual that asks her to negotiate between family expectations and a claim from the otherworld.