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Read an excerpt from Every Happiness by Reena Shah

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Read an excerpt from Every Happiness by Reena Shah

The following is an excerpt from Every Happiness by Reena Shah. She is a writer who lives in Roosevelt Island, NY, with her family and teaches in a public school. Her work has appeared in Masters Review, Electric Literature, Joyland, BBC, the American Prospect, National Geographic, and the Guardian.

Every Happiness follows Deepa and Ruchi as they form an intense friendship as girls in India that follows them into adulthood and immigrant life in suburban Connecticut. As marriage, motherhood, and class differences strain their bond, a dangerous secret about Deepa’s husband forces them to confront the true cost of loyalty and love. It is available now from Bloomsbury.

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Read an excerpt from Information Age by Cora Lewis

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Read an excerpt from Information Age by Cora Lewis

The following is an excerpt from Information Age by Cora Lewis. She is a writer and reporter whose fiction has appeared in The Yale Review, Joyland Magazine, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She currently works at the Associated Press in New York and previously reported for BuzzFeed News. Cora lives in Brooklyn near Sunset Park.

Information Age follows a young journalist covering tech, politics, and the economy in the late 2010s, where the rapid churn of news shapes both her professional identity and personal life. Told in sharp vignettes and overheard dialogue, the novella blurs the public and the private with wry observation and emotional precision. At once sly, spare, and tender, Information Age captures the splendor and unease of being alive in an always-online world. The debut is available now from Joyland Editions.

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Read an excerpt from Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh

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Read an excerpt from Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh

The following is an excerpt from Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh.  She is a Scotland-based writer and editor from the north of Ireland.

Foreign Fruit is a blend of memoir and cultural history, using the orange as a lens to explore themes of identity, migration, and belonging. As Goh traces the fruit’s global journey, she parallels it with her own search for self as a queer woman of Chinese-Malaysian-Irish descent growing up in Northern Ireland. It is now available to purchase from Tin House.

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Read an excerpt from Swift River by Essie Chambers

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Read an excerpt from Swift River by Essie Chambers

We are proud to feature an excerpt from Swift River by Essie Chambers.

In her debut novel, Chambers introduces readers to Diamond Newberry who is a teenager in 1987 learning how to drive, how to love her body, and how to be the only Black girl in an all-white community. Diamond’s coming-of-age story is equally heartbreaking as it is uplifting. Chambers breathes live into intimate scenes with characters that will warm your heart.

We asked the author to set up the excerpt with a short Q&A below, followed by an excerpt from the book’s first chapter.

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Read an excerpt from Lookout by Christine Byl

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Read an excerpt from Lookout by Christine Byl

Christine Byl‘s first novel, Lookout, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. It follows a working class family across four decades of heartbreak, struggle, fire, and hope. Claire Boyles, author of Site Fidelity, said “each character’s struggle to live authentically is as rich and clearly rendered as the Montana landscape that sustains them.”

The following excerpt is from the first chapter, “Start Small,” which is set in July 1986. Readers find The Kinzler family – parents Josiah and Margaret and their children Cody and Louisa – in their small homestead in Northwest Montana.

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Read an excerpt from Kill For Love by Laura Picklesimer

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Read an excerpt from Kill For Love by Laura Picklesimer

Laura Picklesimer’s writing will knock your socks off. Her debut novel Kill For Love is a visceral thriller bursting with satire and through-provoking commentary. It follows a sadistic sorority girl who has one desire: kill the hot boys at her school.

The book is dark and twisted in all of the right ways. Her debut is a pitch-perfect riot.

Prior to writing Kill for Love, her writing has appeared in the Santa Ana River Review, Bookwoman, Gold Man Review, the Pomona Valley Review the California Current Writers Series, and elsewhere. She has also won numerous writing contests including Enizagam Journal’s 2018 Fiction Contest

Kill for Love is available on September 12. You can read an excerpt below.

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