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by Jess Row
Published Jul 2024
Read ReviewsA globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row
by Jeanine Cummins
Published Feb 2022
Read ReviewsHailed as "a Grapes of Wrath for our times" and "a new American classic", American Dirt is a rare exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer of hope.
by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Published May 2021
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2020 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel
A poignant novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico border, inspired by current events.
by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Published Sep 2020
Read ReviewsThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man's attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence.
by Lydia Kiesling
Published Sep 2019
Read ReviewsA gorgeous, raw debut novel about a young woman braving the ups and downs of motherhood in a fractured America.
by Tommy Orange
Published May 2019
Read ReviewsFierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking - Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career.
by Jade Chang
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsA hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent - and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together.
by Masha Hamilton
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsA straight-ahead story of human passion—desire, conviction, and the guilt of a survivor—struggling for order within the frayed justice of the Middle East conflict.
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