Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang
Featured in Good Housekeeping
Desperate to stay close to her brilliant but distant best friend Mathilde, struggling artist Enka uses cutting-edge technology to absorb her bestie’s trauma, blurring their identities and setting off a chilling series of events with catastrophic consequences.
Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Factory by Iddo Gefen
Featured in Jewish Book Council
Our story opens with Mrs. Lilienblum drinking a martini in a crater in the Israeli desert. Her son Eli tries to understand his wacky mother, tackles the legend of a missing hiker named McMurphy, and questions his feelings for Tamara, a visitor to their hostel. The story races forward as the Lilienblum family builds a company around Eli’s mother’s invention, making comedy out of startup culture, company valuation, funding, family secrets, and romantic and family love—all with humor, warmth, and compassion.
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Featured in Alta Journal’s California
In the wake of a devastating Southern California drought, two idealistic holdouts fall in love and scavenge for their needs before taking charge of a mysterious child and embarking on a perilous journey in search of water.
Twist by Colum McCann
Featured in Belletrist
Irish journalist Anthony Fennell investigates the human cost of fiber-optic cable repair on Africa’s west coast, joining a mysterious engineer and freediver as their mission at sea reveals personal and global fractures, forcing them to confront love, loss and the fragile connections that bind them.
Matriarch by Tina Knowles-Lawson
Featured in Oprah’s Book Club
It’s one brilliant woman’s intimate and revealing story, and a multigenerational family saga that carries within it the story of America—and the wisdom that women pass on to each other, mothers to daughters, across generations.
My Documents by Kevin Nguyen
Featured in The Audacious Book Club
Attacks create a panic prompting the American government to force Vietnamese Americans into internment camps, and Jen and Duncan Nguyen are held with their mother at Camp Tacoma while cousins Ursula and Alvin are exempted. Ursula reports on detention’s horrors though messages from Jen.
